Before we go, we will paste a comment from the robust discussion at the Weber County Forum on the matter. It is time for Phase II, as the author of this post so eloquently recommends.
Here it is:
Before the county held their ground and said the town council needed to be fair, the foes of Powderville created a strategy to bankrupt the perpetrators. This all went dormant as the courts did their thing, and now it is time to launch the next phase of the strategy which is legal, focused and deadly. Generally speaking, we expected this outcome and our plans are now timely.It is time for all activists to stand up for our Powderville neighbors!!!
We have all been quiet for awhile, but expect the activists to re-emerge.
Update 6/17/09 2:34 pm: Check out Weber County Forum's latest (6/17/09) post on this topic, which offers a totally different (and slightly more optimistic) spin:
Powderville citizens have no reason to bring out the "crying towels" yet.
"It's not over until it's over." - Yogi Berra
2 comments:
This issue should galvanize our citizens to speak out to their elected officials. We could be on the verge of losing the essence of our Valley. Any large "World Class Resort" as touted by Powder Mountain will destroy our density numbers and wipe out the beauty of our Valley.
This was litigated on the wrong issue. The Powderville homeowners should have forced the issue to be litigated on their loss of equal protection as citizens.
The State passed a bad law (HB466) that provided the owners of Powder Mountain the ability to bypass the popular vote of the residents to determine if they wanted to be included in the town. This law was later replaced by a indorporation law that demanded that a majority of the residents should have a say in the incorporation, but the replacement legislation did not include those petitions filed under the original bad law. That is nonsense, and both the Commissioners and Lt. Governor should have stood tall and said we will not okay this incorporation since it would deny equal protection to our constituents in Weber County.
If this is continued in the courts, the ACLU should be asked to enjoin the lawsuit to protect the civil rights of the homeowners forced into this incorporation. I have spent most of my life watching the ACLU and other civil rights groups win these same kind of lawsuits all over our nation.
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