[Winona Online Democracy]
Janice Turek, Daren Engler and others are correct in pointing out the need
for cooperative effort by all governmental units in the county.
Planners should look at areas of cooperation that have been successful in
the past and use them as models. At the same time, however, the planners
cannot paper over past problems in cooperation. What has caused obstacles?
What is the best way to reduce them? These questions, even when they
encompass personal animosities, should be fully explored. Often the best of
plans go awry because difficult issues are ignored in the mistaken belief
that they will disappear.
Roy Nasstrom
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Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Winona] Developing the bluffs working together
[Winona Online Democracy]
I agree completely with Daren and others. It would benefit the entire
community
to have all government bodies working together instead of pointing fingers
and
bickering. What is the issue with all government bodies sitting down and
coming up with a protective land plan (bluffs, streams, sensitive land)
that
all three governments are equally responsible for? Is it cost? Is it
control?
Is it responsibility or lack of it?
Regarding cost, it seems to me it would be more cost effective to have 3
governing bodies coming up with one protective plan than 3 individual
plans
that resources are spread so thin on that none of the ordinances get
affectively monitored. Control? It seems to me that everyone wants
control of
the land but not the responsibility to take care of it. Or they may not
mind
the responsibility, but again, do not have the financial or physical
resources
to handle the responsibility.
Does coming up with a comprehenisive plan that all governing bodies are
responsible for seem too overwhelming? Someone educate me here, I really
don't
understand. Is it simpler to have the City set ordinances regarding
bluffs in
City limits, but on those same bluffs that abruptly end at the City
Border, the
County or Township set a different set of ordinances? Does it make sense
on a
stream that flows through an "Island" of land owned by the City, have
different
rules to follow than that same stream that flows through the Township? It
makes no sense to me. It is like kids cheating at a game, they set the
rules
that benefit their own personal gain. Let's get together here. For once
let's
have all governing bodies do it right. Janice Turek
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