The NH Municipal Association, using our tax dollars, lobbied to support HB 1124.
This bill permits towns to opt out of official ballot voting requirements for the consideration and adoption of zoning ordinances.
It gives the towns more time to hold hearings and loosens up the requirements for placing the changes on the town’s ballot, etc. But could it work toward removal of the voter’s right to have a say in zoning changes at all?
This passed the NH House.
Whether this bill would give the right of towns to opt out of official ballot voting at all, is what we are concerned about. This is the goal of the Regional Planning Commissions, however.
This bill must be watched for when it gets to the NH Senate.
Please ask your NH Senators to make sure it does NOT remove the right of the voters to approve zoning changes as that would give RPCs too much power over the local boards.
“Most people still think that due to public pressure, Texas governor Rick Perry had abandoned the controversial Trans-Texas Corridor/NAFTA Superhighway project. That was true, however…
As Aaron Dykes of Truthstream Media finds out, the infrastructure and control grids have been quietly continued behind the scenes, and in true globalist fascist fashion, American roads are being handed over to foreign companies (see full story below). Drivers will not be the given the option – they will be forced to drive – and pay on the new fascist highway system in the US.
The EU is similarly pushing an identical system in tandem to NAFTA’s scheme – an EU scheme where bikers will even be forced to pay via RFID.
As we recently discovered in New York state, the car transponders that the corporate state are trying to mandate for all drivers to use RFID chip technology. One concerned NY citizen did an independent analysis on the many ways his car using NY’s ‘E-ZPass’ could be tracked and discovered that he was being tracked and his data traceable in unexpected places, far and away from any toll road barriers.
Known under the pseudonym of ‘Puking Monkey’, he drove around New York City only to find that his transponder became active multiple times on the short drive from Times Square to Madison Square Garden in mid-town Manhattan.”
Watch and listen to how many times his receiver triggers his makeshift reader alarm:
Visit the article above where you can follow many embedded links with examples… namely, the story from Truth Stream Media.
Here is an exerpt:
“…RFID transponders are about tracking more than toll payments – they are used by law enforcement and government agencies to monitor innocent citizens accused of no crime while logging detailed movements in a database:
Many toll road systems now use tracking devices for pay/authorization, and they have also been used by police to catch criminals. From the beginning, these transponders were designed as a payment collection system AS WELL AS a tracking system. Here’s a link to the patent proving that intention: “Open road cashless toll collection system and method using transponders and cameras to track vehicles.” Adding further insult to injury, states like Texas do not hire toll booth operators, refuse to take cash and require drivers to adopt transponders or pay much higher rates via mail after photographing license plates and auto-mailing a bill to the registered address for payment!”
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.
Yesterday supporters of HB 1573 (a bill to rid us of this regional nightmare in NH) was heard before the Municipal and County Government Committee of the NH House of Representatives.
Rep Jane Cormier, the sponsor of the bill, kicked off the testimony.
Reports were that the chairperson, Rep. Porter, said at the opening of the hearing that it was the biggest attendance by the public she’s ever seen at any of her committee meetings.
It was standing room only. Many packed along the wall and a few in the hallway.
So many wanted to testify, that each person was only given three minutes.
According to one activist in attendance, “Everyone testifying AGAINST the bill, of course, had a dog in the fight. Some financial interest. All testifying in SUPPORT also had a dog in the fight, “our private property RIGHTS.””
As we have reported before, the 9 RPCs in New Hampshire were created as “political subdivisions” in 1969, and operate under RSA 36 (45-53). They are taxpayer funded and thus subject to all NH’s 91-A (Right to Know) laws. You can see an example of one of their taxpayer-funded budgets here.
It would seem however, that their existence is fraught with contradictions. For example, while the state mandates the towns get help from the RPCs to write their master plans, towns are only paid members on a voluntary basis. Furthermore, when RPCs procure money for town projects through federal HUD grants, often there are requirements within those grants that would mandate zoning changes. This would seem to contradict the assertion that RPcs are “advisory only”. To make things worse, now some towns want to remove the right of the voters to approve zoning changes and there has even been a bill submitted to the NH legislature to allow this. HB 1124 permits towns to opt out of official ballot voting requirements for the consideration and adoption of zoning ordinances. The RPCs have used our tax money to hire lobbyists to promote these types of bills so they can push their agenda through even faster.
This succession of videos demonstrates the confusion over Regional Planning Commissions.
While RPCs are NOT NGOs, they are a layer of government over which the voters have little, if any oversight. Their boards are unelected. They interface with your town planning and zoning boards, but, does the voter get to vote on the changes they recommend, especially the ones mandated by these federal HUD/EPA/DOT grants they have procured on the town’s behalf?
RPCs may as well be NGOs since private corporations and their foundations and NGOs are their biggest influence. Private corporations have even provided them with PR firms to convince the voters that the ideas they promote are coming from the community when they are NOT.
This series of videos shows why towns are considering rejecting membership in this layer of unaccountable government.
To demonstrate just how little our legislature and local boards know about RPCs I present to you these videos.
In the first video, the Hampton Budget Committee is trying to figure out just what kind of group are the RPCs. One comes to the wrong conclusion that they are NGOs.
In this video, the Hampton Budget Committee states the requirement that towns take help from the Rockingham Planning Commission to write their master plan. This is correct.
At this meeting of the Hampton Board of Selectmen, Cliff Sinnott from the RPC is defending his existence and trying to prevent them from dropping membership. But one member says he doesn’t know who came up with these projects. Why? Because they are not coming from the community. In fact, Mr. Pierce states voters have turned down one particular project TWO OR THREE TIMES, a project that suddenly seems to pop back up when federal funds are dangled in front of the town. The RPC rep does state correctly that they are NOT a private entity but a layer of government created by the legislature.
In the following video, a citizen is discussing with the Hampton Planning Board the classifying of roofs, driveways, and walkways as “impervious surfaces” for the purpose of TAXATION. The board doesn’t want the voters to know this would restrict property rights, and claims it would be illegal to state that on the ballot, and yet the town can legally print a recommendation near the item that they recommend its passage. Go figure.
In this video the Board of Selectmen speak about the invisible strings that come with federal programs…
In this video, the Hampton Board of Selectmen wonder why they pay dues to the Regional Planning Commission and consider withdrawing. They seem to understand that it is another “central planning” body.
Now the question we have to ask is, do they even know what the Granite State Future program is?
RPCs (Regional Planning Commissions) are the top down unelected boards who are implementing the federal government’s idea of sustainability through control over your local government.
If your town has been threatened or affected by GSF, you need to be part of this because your testimony is proof that people do NOT want this interference and the RPCs are overstepping their original purpose. We hope someone from these towns will plan on testifying on the 16th for HB 1573:
Alton
Bedford
Brookline
Claremont
Dover
Goffstown
Loudon
Manchester
Rindge
Activist Susan Olsen and NH State Rep Jane Cormier recorded a good solid radio show on the problems with the NH Regional Planning Commissions on the December 27th edition of WTPL 107.7 “The Pulse” while sitting in for Brian “Bulldog” Tilton.
They hear from noted activists Tim Carter, Ken Eyring, Skip Murphy, and Jane Aitken who call in to talk about how this issue is being brought to the attention of legislators and voters.
RPCs were created in 1969 by RSA 36 but voters feel that they have gone far beyond their purview by becoming lobbyists for the federal government, which by the way, should be illegal according to NH statutes.
RPCs have noticed activity and have stepped up their propaganda machine with communications and lobbying to the NH legislature, using our tax money of course.
When bills come up for scrutiny before committees you can be sure their representatives will be there. This means we need to be there as well.
Most legislators don’t even know what RPCs are about or what they do. Proof of this is in the email one legislator wrote to GSFs stating that he wasn’t concerned about what the RPCs were doing because after all, we “elected these folks to make decisions for us”. Trouble is, we didn’t. And as caller Dave from Weare stated, legislators need to be aware of just who is calling them to lobby for the federal government and we need to watch what deals come to these legislators as a result of these regional projects.
She has filed a bill in the NH legislature to abolish RPCs.
“She said that sheer number of references to the regional planning commissions in state statute belies the notion that they have only advisory authority.”
“All of those repeals,” she said. “How advisory is that?” That the commissions can be replaced by two planners at OEP, she said confirms that “municipalities will do just fine without the bloated bureaucracy,” which she described as “basically a money laundering thing.”
“The fight is on,” Cormier declared, “and we’re going for broke.”
Billed as a ” … three-part series [that] will focus on the Nashua Regional Planning Commission and its “Granite State Future” Project. Granite State Future is a collaborative initiative between the 9 Regional Planning Commissions of New Hampshire to plan for the region based on the wants and needs of the state’s residents.”
In reality, this has nothing to do with the ‘wants and needs’ of the state’s residents but more to do with the ‘goals and objectives’ of international interests, NGOs, private special interests, and the federal government and becomes mandated by any HUD, EPA, and DOT grants that are accepted by the regions.
As we have posted many times before, the surveys and public input represent only a FRACTION of the states’ residents, most of whom have NO idea about this new, regional layer of top down governance that is subject to little oversight by the people and currently virtually NO oversight by the NH legislature.
A first step in exposing them would be for every resident to contact his or her local state reps and ask them to learn about GSF by referring them to this website as well as the Granite State Future official website.
In an effort to defend the idea that Granite State Future has done sufficient community outreach, they have filed this misleading report on what people want in the community.
