An excellent citizen letter on the subject was published today in the Laconia Daily Sun.
To The Daily Sun,
On Thursday, January 30, Gerald Coogan, an unelected official who’s on the payroll of the Lakes Region Planning Commission, sent in a correction to another local newspaper about the “official” website for the massive federal top-down planning program called the Granite State Future.
I went to both websites, www.granitestatefuture.org and www.GraniteStateFutures.org and was stunned at how the official website is lacking in-depth information about what’s going on with this federal planning and zoning program.
Why is that? Why doesn’t the official website contain the following scary statement on their home page taken from one of the official Granite State Future documents? The abstract of the Granite State Future project summary says on page 15:
“Anticipated barriers (to incorporate the Granite State Future plans), including N.H.’s strong tradition of individual property rights and resultant resistance to planning and zoning; and a currently strained state budget that will limit state agency’s capacity to conduct future planning efforts.”
Ouch! You didn’t have to get an A in high school English to understand that.