Here is a question for all you Valley folk.
What’s the problem with annexation?
We are all we have and there are so precious few of us, why aren’t we one community? Why can’t the Chuck’ s and the Bill’s and the Eric’s you elect leader bring this valley together? Last fall when they ran for office there was all the “lets get along” rhetoric and then poof down the rabbit hole. (Well Eric, forget Eric he has only one agenda and that’s keeping the meal ticket employed.)
Why hasn’t the Valley annexed into one community? Why all the division and polarity, why isn’t this one community and eliminate the “equalization” problems once and for all?
Who doesn’t want who?
The Estes Valley Planning Commission: The Estes Valley Planning Commission is a joint Town/County commission that reviews development proposals and subdivision proposals within the Estes Valley, both inside and outside the Town of Estes Park.
You live in the county but must abide by town ordinance, you live in the town but pay for unincorporated Larimer County services, who comes up with this nonsense? The counter claim by people living in the unincorporated no mans land; we shop in Estes Park there for we contribute through sales tax. You’re buying taffy and tee shirts in what kind of quantities I ask? You shop at Sam’s like everyone else so stop that line its worthless, I shop in Cherry Creek but I don’t get a vote there now do I? It’s the businessmen that are self financed and selling to the tourists and collect sales tax that are shouldering the financial load in this Valley, not the trustees, not the developers but the people in the tourist trade and everyone pisses in their punch bowl and to claim that you buy some milk from time to time and are owed service is a gut punch to those businessmen that keep you property taxes in check. Oh sure, the boys you elect take credit but they don’t do spit except spend, spend, spend the sales taxes someone else earns, earns, earns.
Is it the people outside town limits that don’ want any part of our town government but they want the services without contributing to the economy. Or is it the town who doesn’t want the extra responsibilities?
So we end up with dozens of intergovernmental agreements, creating a no mans land of plausible deniability and perpetual polarization.
The town needed some land to build affordable housing huts now didn’t they, so they annexed in a little for that but not much. Look, we do not want you in our town but we want our low income high density spittoon washers living in your neighborhood not ours!
What’s the problem with annexation?
We are all we have and there are so precious few of us, why aren’t we one community? Why can’t the Chuck’ s and the Bill’s and the Eric’s you elect leader bring this valley together? Last fall when they ran for office there was all the “lets get along” rhetoric and then poof down the rabbit hole. (Well Eric, forget Eric he has only one agenda and that’s keeping the meal ticket employed.)
Why hasn’t the Valley annexed into one community? Why all the division and polarity, why isn’t this one community and eliminate the “equalization” problems once and for all?
Who doesn’t want who?
The Estes Valley Planning Commission: The Estes Valley Planning Commission is a joint Town/County commission that reviews development proposals and subdivision proposals within the Estes Valley, both inside and outside the Town of Estes Park.
You live in the county but must abide by town ordinance, you live in the town but pay for unincorporated Larimer County services, who comes up with this nonsense? The counter claim by people living in the unincorporated no mans land; we shop in Estes Park there for we contribute through sales tax. You’re buying taffy and tee shirts in what kind of quantities I ask? You shop at Sam’s like everyone else so stop that line its worthless, I shop in Cherry Creek but I don’t get a vote there now do I? It’s the businessmen that are self financed and selling to the tourists and collect sales tax that are shouldering the financial load in this Valley, not the trustees, not the developers but the people in the tourist trade and everyone pisses in their punch bowl and to claim that you buy some milk from time to time and are owed service is a gut punch to those businessmen that keep you property taxes in check. Oh sure, the boys you elect take credit but they don’t do spit except spend, spend, spend the sales taxes someone else earns, earns, earns.
Is it the people outside town limits that don’ want any part of our town government but they want the services without contributing to the economy. Or is it the town who doesn’t want the extra responsibilities?
So we end up with dozens of intergovernmental agreements, creating a no mans land of plausible deniability and perpetual polarization.
The town needed some land to build affordable housing huts now didn’t they, so they annexed in a little for that but not much. Look, we do not want you in our town but we want our low income high density spittoon washers living in your neighborhood not ours!
No more taxing districts/intergovernmental commissioner political mouths to feed. No more taxes until the people we elect get together with a plan to unify this Valley and make it one town. More districts created through intergovernmental agreements will only serve to continue to divide us even more.
You people in this Valley, conjure up some seriously silly shit!
You people in this Valley, conjure up some seriously silly shit!
