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From Road Grants to Education

Back when Regional Planning Commissions were created by our NH legislature it was done to make sure each town had a say in how federal highway money was spent.

Now regionalism seems to be taking away local control in every area of our lives.

NH Families for Education outlines that fact in a post on their website: From Independent Districts to Centralized Planning via Regional Control Centers

In the post it is noted that “Transferring control over our schools to non-government agencies violates the US Constitution, Art. 4, Sec. 4: “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.” Also known as “Taxation without Representation.” These educational changes also violate the 10th Amendment to the US Constitution: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” The federal government bribes states to “voluntarily” adopt these programs. Follow the money.”

Education is being dictated by the federal government with input from NGOs, professional ‘associations’ and corporate globalists pushing their agendas via groups such as the Gates and Annenberg foundations.

When will the residents of NH have had enough of this?

Realtor Mark Warden Talks Plan Pinardville

This morning on Girard at Large, Goffstown Realtor Mark Warden talked about Plan Pinardville and how major changes via a “master plan” are not needed to accommodate new businesses in the downtown area.

Of course we all know that Plan Pinardville is just a small part of a bigger program, NH’s Granite State Future.

Regional Planning Commissions are charged with ‘assisting’ with master plans and making ‘suggestions’ for changes per the recommendations of HUD and the grants thereof. They’ve dubbed their plan Granite State Future and it’s a product of your state and federal tax dollars. Nashua’s RPC gets paid $1.5 MILLION, yes that’s MILLION dollars per year for this dubious job.

RSA 36:45, “enables” Towns to join in the formation of Regional Planning Commissions.

RSA 36:47 states that the costs of “assistance” shall be paid by the municipality or county to which the service is rendered. [which means it’s a taxpayer-funded operation and thus subject to all 91-A rules, transparency laws, and freedom of information and enjoys no copyright]
 
The Master Plans are being “quietly” implemented at the local level during planning board meetings where, although there’s been notice to make it all quite “legal”, there’s no one from the public in attendance. Oh sure, they had “listening sessions” set up and run by PR firms such as Action Media and NH Listens, but those were limited to the Delphi method of controlled input.

The few times one of our residents says she has been bored enough to watch live Salem local government channel and the Planning Board, she’s seen Ross Moldoff, Salem’s Planning Director, try to get the planning board to approve the “Master Plan” at the local level in a perfunctory manner, without discussion and with no member of the public present.

But wait a minute, didn’t Salem opt out of Granite State Future and the whole “master plan” deal? We think we remember they did.

We did hear a planning official tell a resident in another town that they would go ahead without permission regardless. Is this legal?
 
The government is supposed to be the servant of the people, but “we” are becoming their servants as we unwittingly trust their authority and “professional expertise” and as they quietly strip us of local control and seize our liberty.

Overriding the Constitution, Obama Plans to Use EPA

Just one more step in the destruction of our economy and the devolution of the United States.

BOULDER, Colo. | EPA chief Gina McCarthy said Wednesday that the Obama administration is finished waiting for Congress to act on climate change and plans to bypass the legislative branch in developing a federal response.

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/14/climate-change-obama-epa-plan-action-sans-congress/

Background Information on Regionalism

For those interested in watching an hour and a half video, here is a good in-depth explanation of where these sustainability ideas originated.

Keep in mind that because the word ‘sustainability’ has gotten such a bad rap (which it deserves) new buzzwords are going to refer to regionalism as being done in the name of ‘economic resilience’.



If the above video does not appear on your device, use this direct link:
http://youtu.be/9GykzQWlXJs

Just Say NO to Forced Regionalism

The UN said that urbanisation is now “unstoppable”.  Anna Tibaijuka, outgoing director of UN-Habitat, said: “Just over half the world now lives in cities but by 2050, over 70% of the world will be urban dwellers. By then, only 14% of people in rich countries will live outside cities, and 33% in poor countries.” 

The UN thinks regionalism is unstoppable but we have other ideas.

Read more…

Girard at Large Continues to Hammer Plan Pinardville

From Girard at Large Radio Blog:

“We do not believe you and we are not stupid.”

“That’s what Pinardville resident and Plan Pinardville opponent Gaetane Benner wrote in a letter to Plan Pinardville ad hoc committee member Tony Marts. Marts, a local attorney who has been involved in several Goffstown development projects, issued a letter on Tuesday defending his participation on the ad hoc committee overseeing the development of the controversial master plan. Benner challenged Marts’ representation that he’d only been marginally involved in development activity citing his involvement in the mixed use development involving Rite Aide and a swath of low income housing developed by Greater Manchester Neighborworks along Mast Road. She also wrote that his name was all over the documents on the controversial Moose Club apartment development that’s building forty eight apartment units in Pinardville. Benner also wrote that eliminating the residential neighborhoods from the zoning proposal was quote just another attempt to fool us end quote. She believes that if Mast Road is developed as proposed, traffic pressures will force bypass roads to be built and lead to the takings of back yards to create alleyways as envisioned in the plan. We’ve posted Benner’s letter with this newscast at Girard at Large. It’s an interesting read of the various issues the neighbors have with the plan. We’ve also reposted Marts’ letter.

In a related matter, our friends at GoffstownToday.com are publishing a five part series on the proposed plans and members of the ad hoc committee. They’ve raised some interesting points and questions, not the least of which are the conflicts of interest that may exist between members of the ad hoc committee and the intentions of the proposed plan.”

In our opinion, this is what every town should be doing to put an end to this GSF nonsense in their towns, and we commend Girard and Wynne for taking this on.

Who Cares What the UN ‘Declares’?

“The United Nations has declared that a human right exists for reliable access to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation which, along with other domestic purposes, accounts for about 7 to 10 per cent of all water use.”

The UN knows that water is currently controlled locally. This is why it is so important to get regional plans installed that will override local control in order to take water rights away from private individuals and put it in the hands of the state.

Therefore they recommend that “Priorities for national–local priority setting include pro-poor tariff structures; national food and nutrition strategies that take into account consequences for water and energy; bioenergy and food production; creating a culture of wastewater reuse and water recycling; strengthening land governance and integrating land use management for effective use of bioenergy by the poor; water and energy savings and reducing non-revenue water and electricity; sustainable management of groundwater; use of salt tolerant food crops, fodder crops and biofuels in coastal and saline affected areas; reducing vulnerability to natural disasters; and reducing pollutants of water and land bodies.”

Read more about the UN’s desires for more global governance at the UN website…

Plan Pinardville Won’t See the Light of Day

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This won’t make the proponents of Granite State Future happy but according to those in the know in Goffstown, Plan Pinardville won’t see the light of day.

Thanks to Girard at Large for covering this small portion of Granite State Future’s effects on a NH community, GSF’s not-so ‘community-based’ ideas are not being well received by the residents of that small area.

Please listen in to Hour 2 of Girard at Large for the details.

Girard at Large can be heard locally on WLMW 90.7 FM and we thank him for taking up this issue.

Plan Pinardville is GSF and Agenda 21 in microcosm.