Because the Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission (MVRPC), as part of a $5M bike path extension, has begun to seize up private property for their “essential” project, including almost the entirety of Miss Granato’s front lawn.

The bike path will come within seven feet of her front door!!

The bike path is being forced by the MVRPC, a non-elected regional planning commission that is driven by federal Sustainable Development grant money – with no input from local residents or property owners. The local country commissioners and the township trustees are helping to enforce this program.

Jennie and her family own a historic farm outside Dayton, Ohio. They have tried to negotiate and reason with this unelected planning commission. But the MCRPC has done nothing but ignore her pleas. And they have offered her only a pittance of compensation for this taking of her land.

The fact is that Jenny and her family still own this property – YET the township has already come in and removed trees and dug up the ground!

It’s her property!!!

Again – the bike path is going through her property only 7 feet from her front door!

The Granato’s house is a 150 year old farmhouse that a study said “lacked historic integrity”. Apparently that makes it okay to seize the privately owned property in front of it and pave over the entire front lawn.

And now a great tragedy has occurred as Jennie has tried to fight this outrage. Just days ago, as the government bulldozers arrived and started their destruction of the front yard, Jennie’s 85 year old mother became so upset over the injustice of government ramming a bike path into her front door of her private home, she suffered a heart attack and died.

Is this how our government now treats law abiding American citizens?

The MVRPC is an unelected agency. Neither Jennie nor any of her neighbors voted to institute the agency or its policies.

There was no vote for this bike path.

There was no referendum on the ballot to approve this project or the spending of the tax dollars.

Yet the MVRPC has imposed itself on privately owned property, giving the owner no say in the matter and giving her virtually nothing in exchange for the land they are taking away.

This is why regional planning is so dangerous. County planners and commissioners see nothing wrong with seizing up private property with little compensation to the owners in the name of “public good”. There is no world in which a bike path through your neighbor’s front yard is “essential”. If we allow governmental and non-governmental agencies to dictate “public good” at the expense of individuals and their property, they will trample all over our rights

The American Policy Center has issued warning after warning about the dangers of Sustainable Development and the enforcement of top down control through non-elected boards and regional government. Here it is in all of its raw outrage.

Starting in July 2013, 7 MILLION PEOPLE will be subject to restrictions on where and how they live and travel in the SF Bay Area.

Starting in July 2013, 80% of residential development and 66% of all commercial development FOR THE NEXT 27 YEARS will be restricted to very limited locations in just a few cities in the Bay Area.

PLAN BAY AREA will devastate the Bay Area for more than a generation.

PLAN BAY AREA is a template for the rest of the nation.

This group of unelected, federally appointed bureaucrats using combined grants from HUD, DOT & EPA revealed that they would effect extreme changes in housing and transportation by building “sustainable communities” which are clusters of low income, high density population, HUD high-rise stack-and-pack housing in every neighborhood in every community in the United States. This plan will eliminate the use of automobiles by relocating us out of our suburban homes and forcing us to use mass transit.

With a recent infusion of $10 billion in taxpayer money, secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan, announced this week that during the months ahead, in the most ambitious social re-engineering project ever undertaken by the federal government, racial mapping in every neighborhood in every community in the United States will begin. In accordance with the current Administration, (in their own words), they plan to overcome “legal barriers” in order to install “sustainable communities” nationwide.

Having been voted out of Indian River County, Seven 50 has begun its master plan in St. Lucie County. In a report compiled by Seven 50 called “Social Equity Analysis and Opportunity Index for the Seven Counties of Southeast Florida,” Part 2, page 70 which states: “Downtown Ft. Pierce is very weak in social equity. Another land tract that scores high in the “opportunity census study is tract #3821.9 which includes the PGA Village and Country Club. Another tract, 3812.04 covers a barrier island containing three state parks noting in their report that these areas are “ethnically deficient” and are high priority target areas for implementing the “sustainable communities,” plan, as are gated communities which are deficient in social justice planning.” The report covers the entire county of St. Lucie, Martin, Palm Beach, Brevard and Monroe county as well.

HUD’s Community Challenge grant Program allows HUD to replace local master plans, zoning and building codes, while bypassing locally elected officials. Working hand-in-glove with the Building One America Program, homes in the suburbs will be taxed in the extreme to subsidize the “sustainable communities” in a massive redistribution of wealth. The American Planning Association in concurrence states, “We believe that planning should be used as a tool to eliminate the great inequities of wealth and power in our society.”

Instead of allowing the free market system to correct the past U.S. housing policy failures, Seven 50 promises to integrate more Regional Planning, more federal loans, more debt, more regulations by dissolving city and county lines, forming Mega-Regions, taking away local decision-making and mandating land use codes, zoning, transportation and housing reforms and bypassing our locally elected officials. This plan isn’t really about racial planning—it is about Central Planning by the federal government without your knowledge, without your consent, without your vote but with your tax dollars.

Indian River County was the first in the state of Florida to withdraw from Seven 50. Why? Because Seven 50 does not reflect our deeply held values of fiscal responsibility, smaller government, local decision-making, public participation in the future of one’s own community, the right to decide where and how we live and the right to private property ownership. The federalization/nationalization of our living spaces as mandated by the Seven 50 Plan runs counter to our constitutional right to own private property.

Our Florida counties of the Treasure Coast to the south have asked for our help in supporting their desire to have their publicly elected officials withdraw membership from Seven 50. We offer our assistance in educating the public so that they can make an informed choice about the future of their communities. We speak to civic organizations, churches, Home Owners Associations, clubs, and to your publicly elected officials.

If you and members of your neighborhood would like to learn more about the American Coalition 4 Property Rights and the Central Planners who intend to implement Regionalism under the name of Seven 50, please go to our website www.ac4pr.org in St. Lucie and counties south, or to www.ac4pr.net for Indian River County’s website.

I will be happy to provide additional information about how you can become informed and protect your right to decide how and where you live, and insure your constitutional right to private property ownership.

There will be a St. Lucie Board of County Commissioners’ meeting Tuesday, August 6th at 6 p.m., 2300 Virginia Avenue, Ft. Pierce where the subject of Seven 50 will be discussed. We have ten speakers who will educate the public as well as the commissioners. The meeting will last approximately one hour.

Please plan to attend the meeting. You will have the chance to become knowledgeable about Seven 50 and its vision for your future and for your children and grandchildren. Please take the time to become informed. Bring your family, friends and neighbors to join us on August 6th. We look forward to seeing you there.

Best regards,