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Vivian Moon ![]() MUSA Council ![]() Joined: May 16 2008 Location: Middletown, Ohi Status: Offline Points: 4187 |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posted: May 25 2014 at 11:51am |
Updated: Trustee: Residents have more to fear from
local zoning than Taliban
Staff Writer Trustee President George Lang this week
said that residents have more to fear from West Chester Twp.’s zoning
department than they do a certain Islamic fundamentalist political movement in Americans are slowly losing their
opportunity to go where they want to go, do what they want to do, be what they
want to be, live the way they want to live and pray the way they want to pray,
Lang said during a West Chester Tea Party meeting. “They’re taking those rights away from us,”
he said. “You’ll say ‘What does that have to do with Lang went on to clarify that, “Yeah, the
Taliban is horrible. Yeah, what they can do to He
said he believes fully in the principles of the Tea Party, including limited
government. “That’s
the reason why Lang said that over the last six years,
township zoning has become “more strict, more onerous,” and that he was happy
to have Mark Welch elected to the board of trustees last November. “We are starting to undo what I feel are
unjust zoning laws,” Lang said, eliciting applause. Laws that trustees recently voted to
suspend until the township’s zoning code can be revised include prohibiting commercial
vehicles from parking during certain hours in the right of way, prohibiting
commercial vehicles from parking during certain hours on private property and
forbidding a business from using a costumed mascot with a sign to advertise. Trustees also voted to disallow anonymous
zoning complaints. “Think about that,” Lang said. “You could
be someone’s competitor, you could be someone’s brother-in-law who’s upset,
someone’s spouse, and you could call the township and make an anonymous
complaint and the township was forced to act on that anonymous complaint. It
may not even have anything to do with what the complaint is. It may be a
personal vendetta.” Trustee Mark Welch said a free people only
needs two laws: “do all that you agree to do,” which he said is the basis of
all contract law, and “do not encroach upon other people or their property,”
which he said is the basis of all criminal law. “Zoning
is one of the things that, I see it’s kind of encroaching on folks,” Welch
said. For the past year, a committee has been
examining the entirety of the township’s zoning code, Lang said. That committee
likely will make recommendations to trustees sometime in the next six months. “It is my hope that the three of us can get
together and significantly reduce or eliminate the zoning regulations and how
they affect businesses and individuals in Trustee Lee Wong told the Journal-News
Thursday that both Lang and Welch are “trying to pull the enforcement teeth out
of the code.” “The township only has two code enforcement
officers,” Wong said. “They took away the anonymous caller away.” Wong also said people are now
“uncomfortable to report violations” and that Lang employed a “fear tactic”
when he made his zoning-versus-Taliban rhetoric.
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