I requested this list of Commissioner Jeff Hughes’s concerns as is a citizen’s right under the Open Door Law. The following is what Hughes gave to the Mark McCormack (Plan Director), Mike Hall (PC Chairman), and Dennis Kraus Jr. (PC Vice-Chairman and County Surveyor) at their August 1st meeting with him. That meeting was to ascertain Hughes’s issues with the amendment to the Master Plan which includes the Future Land Use Map.
This entry below is printed just as it was submitted to them from Commissioner Hughes. I have added no editing, corrections, or comments.
Christine Brauer Mueller
Advisory Board member
Lawrenceburg Township
Hughes’s concerns:
{Other concerns that need to be addresses or investigated and reported on}
1) What changes occurred to the future land use map after the violation of the open door law. (The future land use process was discussed).
2) At the East Central public meeting Ralph Thompson a committee member and I were discussing individual liberty and freedom of choice. Ralph Thompson said “that means I have the freedom to smash you in the face,” I would like to known if he was willing to try to intimidate an elected official, how many other committee members were willing to intimidate private citizens. (Have there been any reported incidents to your knowledge)
3) Mark Hall tried to influence the Dearborn County Farm Bureau board to evict Mr. Kolb off of the board because of her presentation she gave from one of the working groups this is a form of coercion through intimidation. I spoke to the chairman of the Farm Bureau Board; he confirmed Mark Hall did perpetrate this act.(I notified the chairman of the plan commission was any action taken).
4) Did any committee members falsely portray the future land use maps as something that would stop eminent domain? We can not have quasi government board inaccurately informing and spreading misinformation to the citizens.
5) Did any plan commission members openly admit in a public meeting that they were tire of the land use process and just wanted to get done with it. ( apathy is a poor reason to vote )
6) What potential does a land use map have on denying property owners the ability to use their land for the purpose they see most beneficial? (Can a plan commission use this map to deny applications).
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I have read Mr. Hughs' concerns three times. I have a problem follow them.
The punch nose thing is a figure of speech seemingly contorted into a concrete concept if intimidation by Commissioner Hughes.
The story of a Mr or Ms Kolb is confusing. Mr. Hughes holds that Mark Hall's attempt to have this person removed from the farm board was a form of intimidation.
Why is that intimidation? Is it intimidation when we try to elect an adversary of Mr.Hughes to replace him on the board of County Commishes? Is it intimidation when some Dearborn Countians wish to have Brian Messmore removed as the County administrator?
Is it intimidation when the county attorney with the unsaid blessing of Mr Hughes, the commissioner's president tried to intimidate Thom Hammond by violating Robert's Rules of Order rule of order by blurting out phrases such "ad hominem" attack and reciting a fragment of the Miranda Rights. YES IT IS!
By quoted part of the Miranda Rights was the County Attorney about to order the attending police officer to arrest Thom Hammond or was the Mr. Hughes plan?
lastly for the moment, if Mr. Hughes actually believes in total freedom of one's use of their real estate property I suggest that he must do the following.
1. Collaborate with Mr Fox to repeal all zoning statues of Dearborn County
2. Discharge the planning and Zoning department and discharge the Board of Zoning Appeals.
Really Mr. Hughes who is a charming young fellow and obviously eager to do the right thing has astonished me.
The gall of this guy. It’s all smoke and mirrors. He’ll tell you one thing , but in the end it’s the same old song and dance. He’s only interested in fostering his own private agenda. Or should I say someone else’s private agenda. By the way Jeff, I conducted my own poll. No one on are street has ever been contacted by you or any representive of your office seeking are opinion on the Comp. Plan. After all we only OWN the land. Now real estate brokers, that a different matter. We all took the time to attend the meeting(s) and looked all the work done by the planning office and advisory committee. To table it is a slap in the face of them and all the residents of the county. Time to step up and vote, show the voters were you stand on the issues. Only then can we make an informed decision..
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