The press has carried the story recently how out of state developer Dean Sellers wants to turn Daniels Canyon near Heber City into Utah's newest city: Aspen, Utah.
It's funny the mainstream press hasn't carried the rest of the story. Mr. Seller's dream town was made possible by HB 466, passed in the last session of the Utah Legislature. Among other things, the bill allows developers to bypass county government, forces residents who don't want to be part of the new town to "join up", and allows the developer to appoint who's going to be the mayor (and other officials) for the first two years.
Wow. And they called Alexander Hamilton a monarchist.
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I believe you are looking at this the wrong way.
What this bill empowers people to do is to establish their own their own municipal entity free of county government entanglement, by going around entrenched bureaucrats who don’t want to loose their power on the status quote of everyday political life.
Kudos’ to the Utah legislature – a most empowering bill for the citizenry of Utah.
Now, if we could get only find a way to break up Salt Lake City into smaller self governing municipal entities – rather than live under the tyranny of King Rocky and his heir Prince, Ralph.
Wow... I am totally making my own town then. Does it say how many acres you have to have to do it?
LOL...
You think I am joking.
I kind of am, but my father is a farmer and I could totally pull this off. NO one lives on the land... I could be a mayor in a population of one. /smile
There seem to be way too many of these "stealth" bills that we don't find out about until something Real Evil(TM) happens. That's why we need to have some kind of mandatory public comment and review period before any bill can be voted on.
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