Dunwoody doesn’t need a Stream Buffer Ordinance

I attended a meeting at City Hall on stream buffers hosted by the Dunwoody Sustainability Commission with representatives from EPA, and the consulting firms hired to advise Dunwoody on the zoning rewrite.  Given the track record of horror stories we’ve read over the past 4 years, my concern was protecting private property rights and stream buffers clearly represent a “taking” of our private property rights. 

You as citizens have God given rights to your life, liberty and property.  Don’t give up these rights to a city ordinance.

If a stream buffer ordinance is included in the zoning ordinance, those of you who have a dried up creek or water shed in your back yard, would lose your back yard.  You would be required to let it become a weed patch that takes up 25 feet of your back yard. 

There is no advantage to having a weed patch over having your lawn. It is government harassment by liberals who want to tell everybody what to do, using city ordinances and phony science.

Water runs off property and goes into the ground water.  Ground water can find itself back in our water supply where it is treated to become drinking water. 

Someone told the EPA to find the most expensive, obnoxious ways to handle our water…I wonder who…Obama ? …Soros ? …the U.N. ?

There is a concern that we have not maintained our drinking water supply to overcome shortages during droughts.  Until we get active to solve this, nothing will improve.  We should ensure that counties have adequately maintained water supply pipes and have upgraded with pipes that last longer.  The oldest lines should be replaced before they break. 

Beyond that, we need more reservoirs dedicated to supplying drinking water to high population areas.  We may need a network of large pipes to carry water to population centers similar to oil and gas pipelines.  We may eventually need to buy water from other states or build desalinization plants on our coast lines.  The western U.S. doesn’t get as much rainfall and will surely need to do some of these things.  It seems apparent that securing water by law suit doesn’t  work.

Watch our politicians sit on this one for a few more decades.  They love a crisis.

Norb Leahy,  Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader