Agenda 21 Rejected by Florida County

SEBASTIAN City council meeting, February 13^th

Members of council, my name is Phyllis Frey. I reside at 275 Date Palm  Road, Vero Beach, Indian River County.

Because I care about our Treasure Coast communities, I have come here tonight to speak with you about “Seven 50,” a Regional Planning organization whose mission it is to control seven Florida counties within 50 years.

In Indian River County I have worked closely with our county commissioners and our Vero Beach city council members, providing research and information in order that our locally elected officials understand the intent of “Seven 50” and the impact its policies would have upon our community.

As a result, on December 18, 2012, our Indian River County Board of Commissioners voted 4 – 1 to sever all ties with “Seven 50.” Following this carefully considered choice, on January 8, 2013, our Vero Beach city council also voted “no thank-you” by a 4 – 1 majority vote. On January 22^nd, 2013 Indian River Shores city council voted by a majority, 5 – 0 saying NO to “Seven 50.”

Prior to these decisions, the “Southeast Florida Regional Partnership Sustainable Communities Grant Initiative” came to our county commissioners’ chamber on October 24^th, 2012 under the new name of “Seven 50,”meaning, control of seven counties within 50 years. It was during this design charette that the “Seven 50” group stated its mission to, in their own words, “affect patterns in housing and transportation.” They further stated that they intended “to bring millions of passengers via Amtrak from Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Palm Beach and Orlando by rail to enjoy our parks and beaches.”

These unelected (un-vetted by you) bureaucrats, federal appointees and NGO’s intended to designate a train stop in our old downtown area and create a “Sustainable Community.” What is a Sustainable Community? It is a cluster of low income, HUD, high density population with demographic quotas, stack and pack high rises built adjacent to a mass transit system. Using government grants from HUD, DOT and the EPA, they would bypass our locally elected officials, rezone our old downtown area and re-engineer our community.

In addition to the HUD grants, single family homeowners would be taxed in the extreme to pay for the new inner city. Under the guise of environmentalism and using the EPA, automobiles, with their “dirty carbon footprint” would become unnecessary. Residents of the “Sustainable Community” would live adjacent to the mass rail system. Single family homes with their “wasteful” lawns, irrigation and individually controlled air conditioners would be deemed unsustainable. By federalizing our living spaces, single family homes and cars would no longer be needed---nor allowed. This is their vision for your future.

This type of Central Planning does not promote prosperity. It creates government dependency. It destroys our capitalist system with its handouts and erodes the free enterprise system. It destroys our rights as Americans to choose how and where we live, and our right to shape the future of our own community.

We the People of Indian River County trust our locally elected officials. We have entrusted to you the duty of protecting our community from outside influences so that we do not become a replica of our neighbors to the south or the north. Local residents, working with local officials have made Sebastian a unique community. Due to careful local planning, you have retained the atmosphere of a sleepy fishing village, a quiet town with a strong sense of history and a feeling of independence. Most of all, Sebastian is a town where people still have freedom of choice to shape the future of their own community, for their children and their grandchildren. 

We the people of Indian River County are for low density population, local decision-making, home rule, small local governance, fiscal responsibility, the constitutional right to determine how and where we live and most of all, the right of private property ownership.

We therefore respectfully request that you join the rest of Indian River County and protect what you have. Retain your local planning rights. Vote NO to government dependency and control. Vote NO to “Seven 50.”

Source: Phyllis Frey, Vero Beach, Indian River County. FL

Comments:

Most of Georgia, 9 of 12 “regions” defeated the T-SPLOST in July 2012, but that didn’t end the advance of unelected regional governance.  The UN Agenda 21 implementation Bills are not being repealed.   Instead, we found more overpriced, useless projects coming from our county commissions and city councils.  They diced the T-SPLOST projects and are pushing them through one piece at a time.  We are now fighting the T-SPLOST in pieces at a city and county level.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader