I asked [Jason Brown] about the Platte County Land Use Plan approved in March 2010. "The Land Use Plan is just one tool of many; it’s a guideline that’s already four years old,” he said. “Perhaps that document needs to be looked at again.”
Wow. "Already four years old." And Jason Brown has called himself a "constitutional conservative"? Shhh, don't tell Brown, but Russell Kirk's seminal Conservative Mind traced "conservatism" back to guiding documents thousands of years old. (Not that it matters since Jason Brown probably doesn't read books and is historically illiterate.) Why, even the US Constitution is over 200 years old! Definitely needs to be tossed out à la Jason Brown's outlook. And what about property law, much of which can be traced back to ancient Roman and Anglo-Saxon common law. Toss it out. In fact, let's toss out all our laws and guidelines and Jason Brown can just personally decree ad hoc laws that best serve his donor and developer buddies. (It's basically what he did on Dec. 2.) "Four years old." Wow. I know four-year-olds wiser than Jason Brown.
Updates:
Stubbs also quotes Brown: "You don’t buy Jason Brown. I have never traded votes for favors or money and I never will. Period.” Umm, Brown's donor list begs to differ (see here). So does JE Dunn.
It's time for Brown the Clown to Go Down!
ReplyDeleteDefeat Jason Brown in 2014!
Save Platte County from this idiot!
Other than having a judge stop chapel ridge, nothing would make me happier than to see Jason Brown out of office (and this is coming from a Republican who voted for him 3 years ago).
ReplyDeleteWhy was there even a vote? If this guy can just wave his magic wand and say that all votes are null and void, what exactly was the purpose here? Just sayin...
ReplyDeleteJason Brown simply ignores a document that is all of four years old as if it is no longer valid, and decides on his own when to stop using it's Guiding Principles?
ReplyDeleteThose Guiding Principles of The Platte County Land Use Plan repeat themselves over and over again throughout the plan. Dan Erickson told me that we just simply have different "opinions" on what the Land Use Plan says.
Quote Dan Erickson: "The South 45 Focus Area is a Plan within the Neighborhood Policy Area" So now let's read part of that :
CHAPTER 7: Neighborhood Policy Area
"ALL new development should be compatible in terms of density and scale to adjacent properties".
YOu can point this out to Jason and Dan until you are blue in the face and it just doesn't matter to them - yes, perhaps due their own self-interest instead of admitting that this Chapel Ridge Plat is no where near compatible with the surrounding area.
OH< but wait! According to Jason and DAn, if you simply put a row of larger lots butting up next to Countrywood Estates....then WALAA, this is now a "gradual change in density" and it now complies with the Land Use Plan!
because they said so! THEY know, and we know, that this is NOT a gradual change in density.