Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Regional Cooperative Incentive: HB430

Virginia House Bill #430 is bland, but those who've taken the trouble to research its implications say that it's an "Agenda 21" bid to destroy the rural lifestyle as Virginia's small farmers know it. Full text:

http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB430

Tea Partiers who thought that all this abstract, innocuous-looking verbiage had to be concealing something nasty have translated HB430 into plain English and determined that it would allow the "planners" and land grabbers to interfere with dozens of things Virginians have never thought of subjecting to any kind of regulation, or any input from anyone outside the home involved...

Barns.

Selling surplus vegetables...or even trading them. Yes, the United Nations wants to control whether Jane Doe trades a zucchini for a couple of tomatoes.

Inviting city dwellers to spend vacation time on a farm as "fresh air children."

Operating a bed and breakfast.

Renting out rooms in your own house.

Camping in your own woodlot.

Letting friends camp in your woodlot.

Storing machines you may have bought or leased in your own field.

Building a dock and tying a boat to it.

Dividing a large house into two or three separate suites for different family members (parents and children stay under the same roof but have separate doors, may have separate utility accounts, and may even have separate kitchens and baths).

Reclaiming a pond, filling in a pond, securing the walls of a pond, or having a pond at all.

Using the timber from your own trees in your woodlot.

Allowing a logger to harvest your trees--with separate regulations if you allow him to camp in the woodlot while working.

Repairing your house after a fire. A few years ago, Scott County's Board of Supervisors destroyed their political careers by allowing outside agitators to sell them on the idea of enacting a zoning ordinance. "This won't affect anything that anybody is doing with their property right now," they insisted. Since that time, property owners who have had fires have reported that they had to "do some begging" to reclaim the legal right to rebuild their homes.

Renting out your house.

Boarding animals for friends who have to be in the city.

Docking a boat for friends who have to be in the city.

The "planners" really envy those of us who've accepted a certain amount of inconvenience in exchange for living at a healthy distance from other people...and they really want to crowd us off of our land. They'd like to see the voters of Scott County displaced--to where, they don't know, because they don't like to come right out and say they want us dead--to make room for a "wilderness" where their soulmates, the bears, coyotes, and rattlesnakes, can freely breed. And they have the gall to use not only Green, but Christian language to talk about their schemes.

Gentle Readers, this one slipped past me; it even slipped past Terry Kilgore. I'm glad that some of my e-friends were more vigilant. No individual can be paranoid enough these days.

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