Transferable land Development

Transferable Land Development is going to become an issue in our community of Rabun County soon. The local League of Women Voters is sponsoring a conference next week that will include a discussion of Transferable Land Development. There are a few reasons why I'm against TLD.

One reason is I don't think it is right to charge someone else, who wants to develop or bring in industry to our community, a fee that will go into someone else's pocket to not develop their land. We should not be paying someone to do nothing. If you want to preserve land, do what they do in other states and start an organization that simply buys land to preserve land. It works. The proof is Ducks Unlimited owning millions of acres of land so duck hunters have ducks to hunt. DU didn't go to the government asking to force people to do something (or not to do something), they raised money, bought the land and decided to turn it into a preserve to save the breeding habitat for ducks. And it worked.

The other reason I don't like this issue of TLD is because while the League of Women Voters is advertising this conference as a way to make yourself more knowledgeable about land use, they are taking a stand of WHAT THEY THINK SHOULD BE DONE and have misrepresented the real reason for the conference. It's not to inform people of the options, its to inform people of the way THEY WANT IT DONE.

One final note...if you're ever going to be on my talk show, don't show up with a list of questions you want me to ask. I've been doing on-air interviews for more than ten years. I know how to conduct an interview. If you can't answer questions that aren't pre scripted, maybe you should be more versed in your topic...after all you're on the show because you're suppose to be an expert in what you're talking about.