No one else was there, even though there were 40 soft chairs to sit in. No one. Not one Loudon citizen was in the room watching decisions being made. Not one citizen was there participating. Are you one of these people in your town?<\/strong><\/p>\nAfter fifteen minutes, Mr. Krieger cordially asked me to approach the folding table and introduce myself for the record. They asked me to tell them about the Granite State Future. I did.<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you telling me you\u2019ve not been contacted by Michael Tardiff, the executive director of the Central New Hampshire Regional Planning Commission about the Granite State Future,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo we haven\u2019t. We have NO CLUE what the Granite State Future is about.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, for starters you should go to GraniteStateFutures.org,\u201d I suggested.<\/p>\n
Wow. I almost fell over I was so shocked. I shouldn\u2019t have been, because this is the same thing I\u2019m encountering all over the state. Selectmen in countless NH towns have not heard about the Granite State Future, even though it\u2019s been in motion since February, 2012.<\/p>\n
On that dark day the nine NH regional planning commissions signed a legally binding contract with the Federal government mandating NH zoning and planning mirror what the Federal government wants, not what you or your Selectmen want.<\/p>\n
Why didn\u2019t Mr. Tardiff come to Loudon months ago before I showed up last night? That\u2019s easy. The nine NH regional planning commissions don\u2019t want you or your Selectmen to know what\u2019s going on. They don\u2019t want you to know they control every aspect of your life here in NH. They don\u2019t want to remind any elected officials that they, the RPCs, are filled with unelected bureaucrats making critical decisions about every aspect of your life. It\u2019s time for you to wake up.<\/p>\n
Tim Carter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
To the Editor: What follows is a true New Hampshire story. It\u2019s relevant if you live up north in Pittsburg, down south in Hollis, west in Claremont or east in Rye. Last night the Selectmen of Loudon, NH asked me to come to one of their regular meetings. I don\u2019t live in Loudon. Months ago […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loudon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}