Comments on: Ballot issues #2 and #3 http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/11/02/ballot-issues-2-and-3/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:06:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Deborah McAdams http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/11/02/ballot-issues-2-and-3/comment-page-1/#comment-10567 Mon, 06 Nov 2006 19:39:15 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/11/02/ballot-issues-2-and-3/#comment-10567 Thank heaven there’s discussion on this somewhere. I was of a similar position as Vivian… at first. Anything that gives localities greater control over their affairs is fine. But I’ve also seen the result in small communities desperate for any sort of economic developmenet. A large entity moves in, paves a dozen acres, moves in cheap labor, overloads the infrastructure and shutters in a few years, leaving the municipality with a hulking dead facility to maintain, not to mention a substantial number of unemployed.
It may not always play out this way, but I’ve certainly seen it.

]]> By: Nancy Gillette http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/11/02/ballot-issues-2-and-3/comment-page-1/#comment-10522 Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:50:42 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/11/02/ballot-issues-2-and-3/#comment-10522 Vivian, so glad you are recommending “no” on # 3!. I’m with Blacknell! Do we need developers in bed with city councils any more than they are?.

Does anyone else think think this was a marvelous time to sneak in such a proposal?

]]> By: Stephen Retherford http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/11/02/ballot-issues-2-and-3/comment-page-1/#comment-10419 Mon, 06 Nov 2006 01:45:50 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/11/02/ballot-issues-2-and-3/#comment-10419 If Vivian Page and Hank Howell say “vote no on # 3″, that’s good enough for me.

]]> By: Blacknell.net » Not Really a Voting Guide http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/11/02/ballot-issues-2-and-3/comment-page-1/#comment-10073 Sat, 04 Nov 2006 22:35:06 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/11/02/ballot-issues-2-and-3/#comment-10073 [...] The other issue is the third VA constitutional ballot question, which deals with giving VA localities the ability to offer tax incentives to developers working in “blighted” areas. Vivian Page has a good summary of the issue, and I’m leaning toward a no on the question, too. The short version of why: developers already get pretty everything they want from localities in VA, and in my view, there’s been no shortage of development in all the time I’ve lived here. There’s no need to put additional public goods on the table to encourage private developers to do something they’ve been doing already. _uacct = “UA-727906-1″; urchinTracker(); [...]

]]> By: Fairfax Democrat http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/11/02/ballot-issues-2-and-3/comment-page-1/#comment-9653 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 16:21:19 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/11/02/ballot-issues-2-and-3/#comment-9653 Well done!

Your voice is important, and it made my day to see that clip.

Best.

]]> By: pat http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/11/02/ballot-issues-2-and-3/comment-page-1/#comment-9635 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:09:35 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/11/02/ballot-issues-2-and-3/#comment-9635 I wouldn’t have known that angle without this post, and Insider’s post was most thought-provoking. Put me in the changed my mind category as well. Thanks.

]]> By: Melissa http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/11/02/ballot-issues-2-and-3/comment-page-1/#comment-9633 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 13:57:39 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/11/02/ballot-issues-2-and-3/#comment-9633 Vivian: Thanks for this post, a lot of people (including myself) don’t know about all those implications in Ballot Question #3. I’ve also changed my vote, and will be voting the same way you are. :)

]]> By: Insider http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/11/02/ballot-issues-2-and-3/comment-page-1/#comment-9625 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:38:37 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/11/02/ballot-issues-2-and-3/#comment-9625 Heck no. I’m just wondering how scary it is to you to agree with me.

]]> By: vjp http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/11/02/ballot-issues-2-and-3/comment-page-1/#comment-9623 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:29:30 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/11/02/ballot-issues-2-and-3/#comment-9623 Not loathe you. I hope you didn’t take it that way. ;)

]]> By: Insider http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/11/02/ballot-issues-2-and-3/comment-page-1/#comment-9601 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 11:02:17 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/11/02/ballot-issues-2-and-3/#comment-9601 loathe? :)

luv ya!

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