Tampa Bay developers to water restrictions: Screw you
March 24, 2009 at 9:17 am by Kelly CorneliusJust one more way developers run roughshod over the public and control our public “servants.” This article in the Times shows the beautiful green lawn of a model home and tells us how some vacant model homes use four times more water than if a family were living in them. The fees they get for violating the water restrictions? The builders consider it the cost of doing business. Looks like they laugh at these restrictions the same way the laugh at growth management laws. Probably the same builders that helped cause our housing glut in the first place with the blessing of most of our elected officials.
I caught part of last week’s Hillsborough County Commission meeting where Team Sprawl was filled with suggestions of how to get the message out to the public to help conserve water. Commissioner Al the New Blair Higginbotham wants to put a tag line on any outgoing e-mails from the county to help people to remember to conserve. The very next day he voted in favor of directing staff to create a zoning change to make it easier to develop commercial centers in the rural area (NIMBY Translation: SPRAWL!) I think maybe we should send a tag line on any ingoing emails……..how about STOP MAKING IT EASIER TO DEVELOP BECAUSE WE DON’T HAVE ANY MORE WATER LEFT, COMMISSIONERS!
