THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, August 11, 1995 TAG: 9508090178
SECTION: CHESAPEAKE CLIPPER PAGE: 06 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Medium: 74 lines
City Council member W. Joe Newman was intuitively accurate during the discussion on adequate public facilities by comparing the proposed charter amendment for limiting growth to the recent debate in Congress on health care reform.
President Clinton was elected promising to reform the health care system and to make it less expensive and bureaucratic for all. However, when the details of the plan came out, the nation realized that we were going down the path of socialized medicine and that some even larger government bureaucracy would be rationing our health care system and that there were hidden premiums and taxes hidden in the plan.
Mr. Newman recognized that Chesapeake citizens were being led down the same path and noted such on the floor. Mr. Newman recognized that the proposed adequate public facilities proposal had not been adequately studied or debated at the state or local level nor had the economic or legal implications been analyzed by the proponents.
An adequate public facilities ordinance would shut down businesses in Chesapeake and place the city in a precarious legal position, which could cost the city millions of dollars in court cases over the taking of private property.
Furthermore, he recognized that the city did not need to develop a bureaucratic construction-rationing system similar to the ill-fated health care plan. City services, just like the health care provisions, are dependent upon a growing capitalist system if we are going to be able to provide for our preset and future needs!
Karyn Verreault
Mooney Road CANS SWIPED
I welcomed the convenience of curbside recycling when our large, blue plastic container was delivered five weeks ago. Today is only the third pickup day in my area of Portlock.
The expense of this program was to be offset by the sale of these recyclable items. This is in jeopardy.
A woman stopped her car at each house today and sorted through the bins to collect all the aluminum cans, presumably for her financial gain. Should I next expect my papers, glass, tin cans and plastic bottles to disappear before they reach their intended destination?
Perhaps the woman does not know her actions are illegal. I hope she sees this letter, discontinues her collections and that no one else takes up this venture.
Yes, I did write down her license plate number.
Linda Batten
Kinglet Avenue DOESN'T GET IT
Let me start by saying to Paula Ambrose, who responded to my letter on July 23 (The Clipper, Aug. 4), that you just don't get it.
If you got from my letter that I'm disappointed in my child because he didn't make the All-Star team, then you didn't understand my letter at all.
The point of my letter was there will always be choices in life. Children have to learn that. I didn't say that Amateur Athletics Union players were not good ball players. You have two organizations: the AAU and Great Bridge Baseball. They are both good. Make a choice. You can't have it both ways.
Let me finish by saying the responses I got from my first letter have all been positive.
You, Paula Ambrose, just don't get it.
Welcome to Great Bridge!
Pam Pike
Corapeake Drive by CNB