This letter was published on Thursday, September 12, 2013 in
Foster’s Daily Democrat.

The red tentacles of Strafford County Regional Planning

To the Editor:

Do you own property? Do you maintain your property? Do you pay taxes to the city, to the State, to the Federal Government? Be forewarned! The Red Tentacles of Strafford County Regional Planning (SCRP) may be “rummaging” around on your property when you least expect it, even when you are not around!

This Ad Hoc Agency is out of control! They are attempting to usurp the land rights of citizens, incrementally, one — Agenda 21 ACT — at a time!

One afternoon several “UNH College Seniors” drove up next to my property!

They weren’t lost! They were checking drainage culverts “on my property”!

I was/am, not happy with this project and it’s effects on my property rights as a citizen. One mentioned the possibility of poor drainage while checking the culvert on my property! There had not been any rain, so there wasn’t any water! I gave them a short summary of the sources of water.

I was polite and helpful, I thought! One of the “students” then mentioned the City of Rochester will be advised to clear the vegetation around my culvert!

What! I clean this yearly and have done so for 27 years. Secondly, the city has no business cleaning “anything” on my property! This same person tells me a triangular stone that has been there since I moved here, is restricting the flow of water! A major bridge was destroyed, in 2006, on this road by Route 202 a few years ago, this stone was in place then! Water that strong would certainly have moved such a small stone. It has never restricted water flow. Hearing this nonsense yet again, they were ordered off my property!

That stone was in place before he was born!

I have to ask the following questions:

Under what authority does the SCRP group operate?

Under whose authority does SCRP designate these students, or anyone else, to go onto private property?

Under whose authority do these students think they can “delegate work” to city workers on private property?

This is yet again, an SCRP group pushed Agenda 21, which this city, and many others around here, have voted Not to participate in! These grants only go to expand their power and “thiefdoms”! Your rights and or freedoms are of no concern to them!

I didn’t serve my country in the military to give up ANY rights to this totally socialist agenda! Even if I had not served, I would be just as outraged!

The next group will inventory your trees!

SCRP members — Stay out and off of my property!

Louis Archambault
SMSgt, USAF Ret.
Rochester