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November 13, 2005
Greedy Environazis Go Out of Control
In Lewisboro, in Westchester County (north of NYC), bureaucratic environazis are going berserk.
Last spring, inspectors came back to check on some construction that local resident Peter Manbeck had made on his property a couple of years ago after wading through the usual red tape to get all the necessary permits. The inspectors saw a tree house and a shed in the guy's backyard, and that some trees had been cleared. These were deemed to be violations of a wetlands law. Manbeck is now facing potentially $7,500 day in fines.
The law in question increases the protected buffer zone around an area deemed to be a "wetland" from 100 to 150 feet. There is no minimum size for wetlands. If a square foot of soggy grass is declared to be wetlands by some moonbat bureaucrat, the buffer zone would be about two acres.
A sane person's mud puddle is someone else's "wetlands." According to Frank Fish, a planning consultant for Buckhurst Fish & Jacquemart:
Sometimes wetlands are made by road work or drainage, and then a wetland expert comes along and sees vegetation and then it becomes a wetland that has to be protected. That is not based on science.
Lewisboro resident Wendy Gennimi is another victim of this lunacy. Her house, built before regulations went haywire, is situated in "wetlands." She brought in a truckload of soil to level out her backyard. She's being fined $25,000 for her trouble.
Lewisboro voted out a Democratic town supervisor primarily to put an end to this sort of envirolunacy, but whether this will do any good remains to be seen. The new Republican supervisor says that "no environmental laws would be scrapped without a full review."
If certain Republicans won't let us drill for oil in a godforsaken frozen wasteland on the far side of nowhere when both our economy and our national security are threatened by our reliance on people like the Saudis and Hugo Chavez for energy, it is probably too much to expect that they would start taking property rights more seriously than politically correct anti-human hogwash when it comes to draconian wetlands laws.
Hat tip: Varla
Posted by Van Helsing at November 13, 2005 11:30 AM
Comments
It's not just New York. My family's farm in Michigan has also suffered at the hands of eco-Nazis.
Posted by: V the K at November 13, 2005 9:47 PM
