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Show Page 8 The UTAH Independent May 3, The Paper That Dares To Take A Stajul 1973 4. Leidiig Citizens 5. We Need Endorse Zoning Little Zoning Whenever promoters come into a community selling any scheme, who is first on their list? It is the "leading citizens people who are prominent and have influence, and, most important of all, people who are BUSY. These busy people listen to the sales pitch it sounds have some beneficial points, so it can be said that a little zoning might be a good thing. It can also be said that some girls could improve their figure if they were a little bit pregnant. These examples have another point in common, they just dont stay at the beneficial good-th- ey investigate further. Also, it is human nature to get a little puffed up when one is recognized as a leading citizen and is selected to convince his fellow citizens that a certain project has all of a sudden become an immediate necessity. Promoters work this trait of human nature to stage. Zoning will protect you from someone starting a junk yard next to you, the promoters of zoning say. Add that is about all they do say. They don't go on to say that your land will be restricted so that you can use it only as the planners decide and for no other purpose. the fullest. The These leading citizens often forget that their, position in the community carries with it a solemn responsibility. Why they will listen to outside promoters instead of the counsel of their friends and neighbors is hard to regulate Any thoughtful that when a knows person salesman puts on the pressure, that is the time to become a little suspicious. Leading citizens are usually sincere but they are not always well informed about the project to which they give their endorsement. Leading citizens have endorsed zoning in Ogle County, but who sold it to them, and by what method? There has never been a straightforward answer. Some organizations also endorsed zoning but not with the consent of the rank and file of the members. A few individuals work themselves into a position where they assume authority. State Senator Barr of Joliet was probably sincere when he county on, but only are in one In restrictive. some places, already zoned, time limits are now being placed on uses. In Riverside County, California, a poultry non-conformin- g ranch that is declared must be out of business in three years. Did you ever hear of a police state, where an appointed official is judge, jury, and executioner? If not, I suggest you make a thorough study of the zoning ordinance. former premier The roly-pol- y of the USSR, who in his gayer non-conformi- zoning moods played the jolly 1 grandfather, said this, cannot expect the. Americans to jump from We capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of Socialism, until they suddenly awake to find they have Communism. A little zoning here, a little government control there, and we are on our way. Khrushchev has been replaced by even more dedicated enemies of freedom. the abolition of property in land. The zoning commission is composed of high class farmers, bankers and businessmen- -. This is a quotation from the chairman of the Ogle County Board of Supervisors. Most of these men had arrived at their station in life. Zoning wouldnt cause them hardship. Why they should want to take rights away from young people that they had enjoyed themselves is hard to understand. I guess they just didn't think it uses There is joy in the Kremlin whenever another county in the U. S. adopts a zoning ordinance. Senators Borah and La FoUette stated that the income tax would never exceed They were probably sincere in thinking so but look at it now after just five 2. many sly methods to promote zoning. For example, it will guarantee in an area more fully mortgages Instead of speaking that is zoned. out for freedom of the individual, our high class bankers scamper behind the skirts of government like a frightened puppy. In local matters the voice of the people is usually right. It is true that people often do not express themselves as they should on public matters. This is no excuse for a public official to assume that his people favor an issue when he has made no attempt to inform them about it and to get their reaction to it. decades. What this all boils down to is this, there is no such thing as a little zoning. Zoning is like everything else that is instituted by government. It has a way of growing and growing until, before we realize it, it is out of control. The persons appointed to make decisions in zoning cases find that a monster has developed, way beyond their capabilities to handle. This may be illustrated by the following quotation, Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism pygmies.-Hono- The professed internationalist usually sneers at nationalism, at patriotism, at what we call He bids us Americanism. love of forswear our country in the name of love of the world at large. We nationalists answer that he hat begun at the wrong end; we is say that as the world now is, it loves only the man who ardently his country first who in actual other practice can help any all Theodore Roosevelt Resistance to tyrants obedience to God. supervisors Taverns taverns. direction-mo-re legislation in the Illinois General Assembly. I wonder what he would think of it now and-wonder if he had ever read "The Communist Manifesto? One of the goals listed by Karl Marx is country at county licensed and the number of licenses is limited. Also, taverns must be a certain distance from churches, schools, etc. The supervisors could regulate junk yards and other businesses with a nuisance value in a similar manner. But, of course, they dont want to. They must have the junk yard scare to sell zoning to the people. A zoning ordinance, no matter how mild it may be when enacted, will be changed as time goes understand. sponsored does Zoning dont take the time to A is re operated de Balzac. by 7. Zining Will Privide 0. wo Orderly Development For All Kinds Of Land Protection Against Of The County Use But Each la Its Undesirable Uses should have had zoning in Ogle County a hundred and thirty-fiv- e years ago. Then Buffalo Grand Grove, Detour, Daysville, White Rock Burg, brines Point, Iightsville, and several other early day towns wouldnt have been started at places where the railroads wouldn't be built. Or maybe the prophetic planners would have looked further ahead and not built any towns where the railroads did go through except Oregon, Rochelle and Davis Junction, because they would know that in time those would be the only towns where trains would stop. In spite of recent Supreme Court rulings the planners and zoners stick to their policy of segregation. Only with them it isn't black vs. white. It is Proper Place Of Property The question is, Who are the men of wisdom who know where the proper place is? Of course you dont want a junk yard next to your place, but, does the fellow on the other side of the county want the junk yard next to his Here we run into a question, What is desirable and what is undesirable? Ask a dozen people and you will probably get a dozen answers. People, being what they are, have vastly different ideas, likes and dislikes. Along comes government and tries to pour all We vs. vs. agricultural commercial residential vs. industrial, each segregated from the other. It is mobile home dwellers segregated from home dwellers. It is the poorer class segregated from the richer class. These and many other things, often with a buffer strip in between, according to the planners pipe dreams. All of this notwithstanding the fact that the cities, towns and rural hamlets of our nation have non-mobi- le as integrated neighborhoods, where people lived close to the stores or developed factories where they worked. have been the thriving, happy communities where people visited at the corner groceries and the village stores. They gathered with their neighbors to enjoy good times together and to help each other out in time of trouble. Also these people did a good job of policing themselves because it wasnt necessary for them and their young people to travel far outside their own neighborhood. The American people are not law breakers by nature but government intervention in the normal pursuits of citizens will make law breakers out of anyone. The passage of picayunish laws brings about disrespect for public officials and for government in general. Much of our present lawlessness among young people can be traced to this cause, for if adults do not respect the law how can we expect children to grow up These with the proper citizenship? As a sense of personal testimony, I was brought up to have respect for and confidence in all public officials. I lost that respect for and confidence in our Ogle County supervisors on August 18, 1961, when I found out about county zoning. change and economic conditions change. People will adjust themselves to these changes Times and in the most appropriate way if they have the freedom to do so. When the use of wisely property is restricted by zoning regulations, well, just read the daily papers. You will find that causes more confusion, more conflict, more contention among neighbors than anything else. Orderly development? No. Bureaucracy, red tape, hard feelings? Yes. zoning place? Don't worry, the omniscient planners will decide where the junk yard shall be, and everyone will be happy. Or, if someone isnt happy he can pay dollars for the twenty-fiv- e privilege of begging the zoning board to hear his side of the case. It may just be throwing bucks down the drain but, at least, it will make the little gods on the zoning board feel important that they are asked to make a decision. Because a few people do not in making a wise and proper use of their property zoning restricts all of us. Instead of the criminal it is the good law abiding citizens who have their liberty restricted. What is liberty anyway? According to the the socialistic minded make a of big zoning opponents issue about losing their precious liberties. Let me tell you, liberty is precious. Now for a definition, Liberty is that condition wherein every persons right to exclusive ownership and control of his own life and property, but of no one else's, is respected and twenty-fiv- e te do-goode- - protected. Your life and your property are indeed precious. Any person who develops and uses his own life and property to their fullest extent has all he can do, without sticking his nose in iris neighbors business. The function of is to protect the property rights pf the individual, not to change and restrict those rights to conform to the mores of society. The individual who OWNS property has incentive to government produce, the worker on a farm does not. In between these two is the man whose land is zoned. Because his rights of ownership have been restricted his incentive is reduced to mediocrity. Some people who live in town arent interested in county zoning because it applies only outside corporation limits. Remember, people in town will be paying more taxes, the same as rural residents. Also, you may want to move to the country some day. Will you have the freedom to build or buy the kind of place you want? How about your children? If we dont get rid of zoning now they will be stuck with it too. A proper place? Would a planner in the year 1818, when collective Illinois became a state, have chosen a swamp along the lower reaches of Lake Michigan as the site for a great city? Yet when steam engines were developed and railroads pushed their way westward the Land of the Skunk Cabbage became the greatest railroad center in the world. If airplanes had been developed before railroads Chicago, undoubtedly, would be somewhere else. Could planners foresee these things? No. Neither If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the time when you will have to fight with all odds against you and when you have only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse fate; you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to die than to live as slaves.-Winst- on Churchill dost 6. Zoning Will Insure The most outstanding figure in Washington, D. C., is the national debt. One way to get back on your feet is to miss a few car payments. No two people are alike and both are glad of it. A welfare state is one run for the benefit of everyone but the taxpayer. can they developments foresee other which they claim to. Have of them into the nine mold of conformity. Even in Rmria, where it is not healthy to criticize the government, they are finding that they cannot force individuals into conformity. I know of a man who built a $30,000 home right beside a sheep feeding yard, even though he had plenty of land just as suitable for a house away from the feeding yard. I have heard of people whose bedroom window is next to an elevated railway track. They go to the country and they cant sleep because it is too quiet. And still the planners tell us that certain land uses are undesirable. You wouldnt want a junk yard next to your place, would Thats the standard you? question put forth by the promoters of zoning. Shall we do away with junk yards altogether? Oh no, the planners hasten to reply, they are vital to our economy. Well put them somewhere else. Smith has a nice home here so well ban junk yards here. A few miles down the road Jones lives. He doesnt have such a nice home so well allow junk yards there. Of course, the fact that Smith is an executive with a salary in the five figure bracket and Jones is a laborer striving to raise a large family doesnt enter into the picture. Or, does it? The state is approaching the junit' yard problem in a more sensible manner than the zoning method. The Ogle County Zoning Ordinance restricts junk yards to districts zoned Heavy Industrial and it prorides VERY FEW such land use districts. The state recognizes the right of a property owner to have a junk yard where he wants it and pending legislation would provide only that a junk yard within a certain distance of a state highway must be fact, a citizens committee appropriately screened from view. Our county supervisors could enact similar legislation pertaining to property along other roads. In recommended such a plan to our supervisors a few yean ago, but they completely ignored it. What is an undesirable use? Does a certain use of a property endanger the life or health of people in the area? Then government already has the power to take whatever measures are necessary. And it is NOT necessary to zone every acre in the county into land use districts to accomplish this purpose. To zone into land use districts creates an evil that far outweighs the good it does. People being what they are and government being what it is, the planners would really have to be little gods to work out a solution to suit everyone. There is a solution. Lets leave it to the people. Through the yean they have exercised good judgment, without the meddling of those who are so determined to protect us. Life Line Program No. 58 , ZONING OS RIDICULOUS |