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MrMickeysMom

(20,453 posts)
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 06:07 PM Jun 2014

Please DU this poll from WSJ - "Should Towns be allowed to use Zoning to ban Fracking?"

Here: http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2014/06/17/wsj-poll-should-towns-be-allowed-to-use-zoning-regulations-to-ban-fracking/

As a past local government official, I want to tell you that zoning districts should reflect the best use of land management. You cannot have the state (as PA tried to do) come in and usurp local government's decision on how that land should be managed.

Please join me in the ban of such land use. We've almost gone insane over the ALEC written legislation here that will be the death of us, if we don't weigh in.

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Please DU this poll from WSJ - "Should Towns be allowed to use Zoning to ban Fracking?" (Original Post) MrMickeysMom Jun 2014 OP
For those concerned re: WSJ being a subscription site, you CAN access this page to vote regardless hlthe2b Jun 2014 #1
Thanks for mentioning that, hlthe2b... MrMickeysMom Jun 2014 #3
happy to help... hlthe2b Jun 2014 #10
Done Little Star Jun 2014 #2
... MrMickeysMom Jun 2014 #6
There's that 33 - 34% again. crim son Jun 2014 #4
Yep... MrMickeysMom Jun 2014 #7
Done. arcane1 Jun 2014 #5
... MrMickeysMom Jun 2014 #8
Done !!! - K & R !!! WillyT Jun 2014 #9
... MrMickeysMom Jun 2014 #17
Thanks for the info. sadoldgirl Jun 2014 #11
... MrMickeysMom Jun 2014 #18
Done n/t Joe Shlabotnik Jun 2014 #12
... MrMickeysMom Jun 2014 #19
Done! marew Jun 2014 #13
... MrMickeysMom Jun 2014 #20
Done (nt) PotatoChip Jun 2014 #14
... MrMickeysMom Jun 2014 #21
Fr'k the Frackers. Let's take 2 eight ounce glasses of frack fluid and enema the CEO's laserhaas Jun 2014 #15
Ooof!! MrMickeysMom Jun 2014 #22
DONE Iwillnevergiveup Jun 2014 #16
... MrMickeysMom Jun 2014 #23
done! shanine Jun 2014 #24
... MrMickeysMom Jun 2014 #25
dun.. frylock Jun 2014 #26
... MrMickeysMom Jun 2014 #33
State and Federal Regulation always trumps local control. Frank1 Jun 2014 #27
Actually, in PA, the state law that set up local control of zoning was making us violate the law... MrMickeysMom Jun 2014 #30
Done & bearssoapbox Jun 2014 #28
I know!!! MrMickeysMom Jun 2014 #31
You Win! bearssoapbox Jun 2014 #45
They use it to stop iamthebandfanman Jun 2014 #29
But aint that Commynism? ErikJ Jun 2014 #32
Done and done. nt thucythucy Jun 2014 #34
Gladly. femmocrat Jun 2014 #35
You and I sure do... MrMickeysMom Jun 2014 #37
Done - K&R PumpkinAle Jun 2014 #36
... MrMickeysMom Jun 2014 #38
Done mnhtnbb Jun 2014 #39
As a PA resident with a ruined well, I gladly voted. appleannie1 Jun 2014 #40
I wish Richmond County would use something to ban it. Jamastiene Jun 2014 #41
Nobody of sound mind wants this... MrMickeysMom Jun 2014 #46
DONE! n/t NCarolinawoman Jun 2014 #42
2-1 yes WhiteTara Jun 2014 #43
Done. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2014 #44
Thanks to all polling with me... MrMickeysMom Jun 2014 #47
Done emsimon33 Jun 2014 #48
I had no problem with access. raven mad Jun 2014 #49
Done. YES 68.2% / NO 31.8% pinboy3niner Jun 2014 #50
... MrMickeysMom Jun 2014 #51
Done. 66.4 for, 34.6 against sakabatou Jun 2014 #52
... MrMickeysMom Jun 2014 #54
Done! Rhiannon12866 Jun 2014 #53
... MrMickeysMom Jun 2014 #55
You're more than welcome... Rhiannon12866 Jun 2014 #56
 

laserhaas

(7,805 posts)
15. Fr'k the Frackers. Let's take 2 eight ounce glasses of frack fluid and enema the CEO's
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 06:57 PM
Jun 2014

Then we'll see how long they last with the "harmless" fracking fluid.

MrMickeysMom

(20,453 posts)
30. Actually, in PA, the state law that set up local control of zoning was making us violate the law...
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 08:18 PM
Jun 2014

… by allowing what passed in Pennsylvania's Act 13 to be followed... that zoning WAS to be dictated. The Municipal Planning Code of 1968 was well written and was my bible on this. But the MPC was virtually non-compliable with Act 13, which challenges under the law how one industry can violate zoning rules with dictating land use. Zoning is based on the Police Powers Act that we were duty bound to abide by. If I as a local councilwoman were to comply with the chapter on zoning, I could never comply with Act 13 of PA.

I happen to know that you could count on ONE HAND with fingers left over the number of PA legislators who had actually read it prior to passing it under the heavily lobbied gas hole culture coming out of Harrisburg.

Something, eh?

MrMickeysMom

(20,453 posts)
37. You and I sure do...
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 08:47 PM
Jun 2014

I've only lived in Pbg area since 98, but… I've traveled recently across the turnpike… My, oh… what are they doing to our farms?

How many lies can you count? Too many…

I see it's climbing… EXCELLENT!

Jamastiene

(38,187 posts)
41. I wish Richmond County would use something to ban it.
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 09:29 PM
Jun 2014

In NC, the two main counties they listed were my county, Richmond, and the county next to us, Anson. Anson went ahead and made it so they cannot do fracking over there. The idiot who is our state representative is gung ho to begin fracking in my county. So, no such luck here. Still, if we can vote his ass out and replace him with a more reasonable rep, maybe we could do that here too before it is too late. I really don't want flammable water, destroyed forests, and cancer just so some assholes can get rich.

MrMickeysMom

(20,453 posts)
46. Nobody of sound mind wants this...
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 12:17 AM
Jun 2014

They are being lobbied by ALEC.

We need to stop them. I feel the same

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