State certifies Hometown Democracy for 2010 ballot – We're Amendment # 4
This news is huge!!!!!!! Thanks for all your support on this initiative. Little Indian River County contributed very nicely to this effort both in petitions and contributions. Of course, the opposition went on record again to defeat it but for now we can celebrate!
Hometown Democracy on YouTube
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ALERT
June 18, 2009 Notice just in. The Florida Supreme Court has ruled and the revocation law was struck down giving a significant victory for Florida Hometown Democracy.
Three good things happened for Florida Hometown Democracy this past week!
First, our numbers continue to grow:
Signatures: **Verified Totals are UNOFFICIAL until the Initiative receives certification and a ballot number.
Required for review by Attorney General: 67,683
Required to have initiative on the ballot: 676,811
** Number currently valid: 709,497
** Number currently revoked: 13,280
** Total number valid: 696,217
Second, the Florida Supreme Court...
OrlandoSentinel.com
Crist & Co. pave way for lower home values
Charlie Crist and his Republican cohorts just depressed the future value of your house. They did this by gutting the state's growth-management law. We tend to equate rampant paving with crowded schools, traffic jams and environmental destruction...
The SB360 Law
Governor Crist puts the special interests of the development industry ahead of the public interests. At 6:46 a.m. June 2, 2009 he signed SB360 into law.
We want to thank every one who contacted Gov. Crist and told/asked him to VETO SB360.
IRNA chairman calls growth 'desirable,' 'inevitable'
The following letter by Executive Director Brian Carman was printed in the Press Journal May 11, 2009. Some people are only now beginning to listen to the IRNA's warnings about unmanaged growth. Brian addresses this in the following letter:
Monday, May 11, 2009
Recent reports of huge growth plans in Fellsmere and Osceola County (the proposed new town of "Destiny) may have come as a shock to some, but the Indian River Neighborhood Association has been warning about the population growth monster for years.
Who will be benefit from this massive growth? My guess is that it will be the out-of-state developers who plan to convert this part of Florida into another South Florida sprawl.
That has been tried before and we all know how that has worked out. Left unchecked, this growth plan will leave us in an overcrowded and water-starved state.
This has to stop somewhere and sometime. Why not stop uncontrolled growth now?
The IRNA has no profit motive, is non-partisan and beholden to no one. Chairman John Higgs has stated that "growth is both desirable and inevitable." He has publicly stated that a sustainable economy cannot be based on building more residences.
Proper growth should be focused on attracting clean industries and institutions that have good paying jobs; residential construction alone will only perpetuate and aggravate our current economic problems.
The IRNA is working to be part of the solution by cooperating with those who are trying to bring good paying jobs to our county.
The growth we speak of should be planned and managed with the interests of the public in mind, not the short-term profits of a few large developers and land owners.
Russ Lemmon asked in a recent column "Where do we sign up, IRNA?" The answer is found at www.indianriverna.com, or 794-4762.
Brian Carman
Executive Director, Indian River Neighborhood Association
Vero Beach
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Honey on the Radio
Listen to Honey Minuse's weekly appearances on Monday morning radio, WTTB 1490, The Bob Soos "Morning Magazine" at approximately 8:20 a.m. As Spokesperson of the IRNA she discuss issues that are current and effect the people of Indian River County, issues which impact all of us and which will ultimately be determined by a political vote in the county and the municipalities.
We are happy to announce all shows going foward can also be found by clicking on Radio.
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