Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Christine "Troubled" By I-933

Christine Gregoire, beneficiary of a stolen election, doesn't care much for democracy in any form:
Gov. Chris Gregoire this week announced her opposition to a proposed initiative that would require the government to compensate private property owners when government zoning or land-use regulations infringe on use of the property and decrease its value.
The Centralia Chronicle's all over her:
We’d be interested to know what Gregoire’s ideas are...

Does Gregoire acknowledge that the three-member, unelected hearings boards likely have too much power and ought to be elected so that they can be held more accountable?

Does she realize the state-mandated rural residential development zoning that, contrary to the county’s better judgment, imposed five-acre and above densities for home sites in the county diminishes the availability and drives up the cost of housing in rural areas and is a major waste of the land resource?...

Perhaps it will take the passage of I-933 to get the message across.
More on the Property Fairness Initiative here.