Requiring 75 percent supermajority is wrong
A protest petition, which forces council members to muster a 75 percent supermajority to approving rezonings that are protested by a petition signed by 5 percent of neighborhood property owners, should never be allowed.
And the reason why is this: No one should have to have a 75 percent supermajority to get anything approved. Whatever happened to the most votes count?
If you want your property taxes to go sky high again, then leave business and industry out of the equation. Then you will see how fast Greensboro hits rock bottom.
So council members and commissioners, do the right thing and stay the course.
Robert Bingham
Greensboro
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Suppose a zoning board, with the rubber stamp from a board of commissioners, approve building a toxin and carcinogen spewing asphalt plant within a mile of your neighborhood, ignoring the long term health risk to you and your family and friends from the by-products as well as the additional traffic associated with that abysmal enterprise? Would you feel the same?
Posted on March 15, 2008 8:44 AM