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Amendment 4 Blog - Palm Beach Post: The town that saved Florida
Palm Beach Post: The town that saved Florida
By:
ababington
On:
11/23/2009 9:03 AM
Posted To: Infrastructure and Growth Leadership
This weekend the Palm Beach Post became the 11th newspaper in Florida to editorialize on Amendment 4, and the 11th newspaper to publicly oppose it. Here is their editorial:
The town that saved Florida
If Floridians approve a constitutional amendment on the November 2010 ballot, local voters would have to vote on every change to a city or county comprehensive plan — the blueprint for development — no matter how innocuous. Ballots would be full of items that have little impact on, and make little sense to, the average voter. Here's one such item:
The Palm Beach County Commission adopted it Thursday — without a public referendum. The staff description says that the change would revise the comprehensive plan's "Future Land Use Element and Introduction & Administration Element" to "eliminate references to the Central Western Communities Sector Plan in the text and the Special Planning Areas Map, LU 3.1."
"This is a housekeeping amendment," county staff wrote, with "no policy implications … as the board has previously made the decision to no longer pursue a sector plan for this area." Would voters believe that? Would the jargon befuddle them? Would they bother to vote? It wouldn't matter. The proposed Florida Hometown Democracy amendment would require referendums on even the most inconsequential changes.
More here.
What do you think about Lesley Blackner's hometown newspaper slamming her idea?