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GROWTH: Math isn’t favorable

| March 12, 2021 1:00 AM

The heads of councils, building departments, etc., say they hear our concerns. They say their hands are tied. It’s said “they,” the out-of-staters, are moving here for our way of life but that is exactly what is disappearing. Just because a piece of land is zoned a specific way, multi family or commercial or residential, doesn’t mean you should issue a building permit for it. In short, just because you can, it doesn’t mean you should.

Builders need infrastructure in place before they can build a single structure. Why doesn’t the county have to follow its own rules? City infrastructure should be in place to handle the problems that come with all of the building, traffic, water usage, city departments with enough staff, etc.

Builders get a permit to build apartments that have “X” for expected occupancy, only in reality, those apartments far exceed that number. Example: Complex on Ramsey, a three-bedroom unit is assumed to house two adults and two children. That should equal two cars.

Reality is at $1,700 a month, the average family can’t afford it. Instead you have three couples sharing that apartment. It’s six cars, not two. The roadways are not equipped for the traffic, water is depleted (friends have replaced sprinkler systems due to loss of water pressure), and we have to go to surrounding counties (which have cut us off) to license our vehicles and the list goes on.

And now the old Wild Waters site, really? My conservative math puts another 938 cars in that complex!

So I ask, who is in charge of preparing the cities’ infrastructure?

ANGEL’E CYR

Hayden