I've read all this stuff a half-dozen times since the big guy launched his brilliant council campaign.
I still have no idea what he's talking about.
OK here is my problem, if people wish to live on a river that floods every few years, can afford flood walls and insurence, why not allow them to build at their folly ??
There has to be Army Engeners that have some rules as to how far from a river one can build and insure that in a flood their homes floating down river are of no harm to others.
Up here everyone is conserned about the wet lands. Who can and who cannot build or even walk about on their own land. Some poor man in Maine cut down a few trees to get a better view of the river from his house and
found himself facing Federal charges for tampering with his front yard that was now classed as a wet land.
We 20 years ago looked at 7 acres of land near a lake with a double wide manufactured home and a trout stream running through it. The price was so low, we became suspecious of it, but we put in a full price bid to the bank owning it. The bank would not except our bid, and so we were curious about why.
Seems the land was all but 1/2 acre considered wet land. We kept an eye on this property and found it had been bought for less then our bid to a sporting club and 6 months later the wet land desigination was removed from the books.----------- How convenient.
Lots of Hankie Pankie going on with the land grabbers today.
