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This is good news in my opinion. Indianapolis has gradually become a very poorly run city. Seems like everything the Dem’s touch turns to crap.
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Maybe it would be run better if there was a functioning Marion County Republican Party that offered ideas and candidates for local office in Sandlinville (the new name for Indianapolis, in honor of Sen, Sandlin).
If the cities want to bail from Unigov, that’s one thing. But more township government in Marion County? As Mark said, no one wants more township government. They should be abolished in Marion County, not enhanced.
Republicans were for government consolidation when it benefited them with Unigov. Now they’re introducing more layers of government to make it harder to do business in Sandlinville, the economic engine of the state.
Joe B. +1
Hopefully, the bill fails, and if not, at least Holcomb has enough common sense to veto it. It looks is NOT the job of the General Assembly to run local municipalities or meddle in local affairs. If a city is “poorly run,” it is up to local voters to vote in new leaders. It is time the GA members do their jobs and focus on state matters—they truly make up the nation’s worst legislature. At least Indiana has a competent governor who can shut down these yahoos with a stroke of his pen.
Breaking down big Gov is needed! Getting a permit in Marion County can take up to 6 months and is very painful on small businesses!
Shawn G., you are the type of sucker the corrupt yahoos in the General Assembly bamboozle every election–they don’t care about you and they aren’t going to make your life better. This bill has NOTHING to do with “breaking up Big Government,” and everything to do a partisan attack to dilute city control of its own zoning and also empower the NIMBY contingent. Think it is hard to get a permit now? How about NEVER getting your plans approved in the first place? The intention is to STOP development, not facilitate it. You’re being reeled in, hook, line and sinker, and you’re going to end up flopping around, gasping for air, and wondering what the heck happened.
If Mike Young wants to change the local government structure and administration of ordinances in Marion County and Indianapolis, why doesn’t he run for the City-County Council? Sounds like he has a grudge somewhere.
He needs his gerrymandered State Senate district to have any hope of being elected to a political position.
We’ve had State and Local Republican administrations, included a blue-star commission recommendation on Township Government (Kernan-Shepherd report) that encouraged and informed in great detail why we should be eliminating township layers of government….not ADDING additional layers of government. It’s for this same reason that the republicans when in control of Indianapolis, eliminated at-large positions on the council. Those at-large positions were also an additional voice for constituents that may not be heard, but they decided to get rid of that. Way to add additional red tape to the process when the excluded cities already have their own staff working on these requests. Oh an the residents who may not like a staff decision, can remonstrate, go to a public meeting and voice their opinion or reach out to their councilor. Because there are multiple layers of having your voice heard and represented already – lets just go ahead and add an additional layer to add confusion and to politicize things even more. It’s development and zoning – if you don’t like the appointments now – then work to change the rule on whos appointed and staffed on the excluded cities BZA and MDC appointments ordinance.
It’s not about proper zoning or planning, it is about diluting the city control.
If it made sense, then the proposal would have been to move planning and zoning to the township level state wide.
Mike Young has his position because he is in gerrymandered senate district, and would never have a chance of influencing Indianapolis politics, because he could not get elected otherwise.
“Officials from Speedway and Lawrence encouraged lawmakers to support the bill, because they believe it would give them more control over land use within their communities.”
They already have their own BZAs. How would this proposal change anything for the excluded cities? Or does it allow them to actually adopt their own zoning ordinances?
They get to pick the members instead of the city of Indianapolis. I can understand this part of the bill. For the townships? The township trustee would get to pick a majority of the members.
(Boy, I wonder where this could go wrong.)
So the township trustee goes from being entrusted with minor tasks like taking care of old cemeteries to now being able to decide what does and doesn’t get approved from a development standpoint.
Did you vote for your township trustee knowing he or she would have these responsibilities, and evaluate them based on the record or how they would execute this job? I know I didn’t.
The excluded cities already get to pick 3 of the 5 BZA members, with the MDC (Indy) appointing the other two.
Thank you for the correction. But the real question I now have is – are these cities still allowed to rename themselves or do they have to ask permission from Indiana Senate Republicans first? All these bills have left me unclear on when and where local control is appropriate.
Republican Power Grab, plain and simple. Get to work Democrats!
Another bad piece of legislation. Hopefully, the broader Senate can kill this.
Can anybody say Government over reaching legislation by a conservative Republican legislator? It is hard to say and seems like an oxymoron. Any way, I’m very confused.
Sandlinville is being punished for not electing Republicans. It’s very simple, Republicans in Sandlinville have the state of Indiana do their bidding for them since they can’t run serious candidates in elections.
It’s the inverse of what happens at the state level. I mean, Jim Merritt’s campaign for mayor was every bit as incompetent and pitiful as Woody Myers’ campaign for governor.
It’s sad because Republicans like Bill Hudnut and Dick Lugar were foundational to the success of the capital city with big ideas … not clowns like Mike Young and Jack Sandlin and Aaron Freeman who only have things they don’t want the residents of Sandlinville to do.
This is state government overreach trying to undo Marion County/Indianapolis Unigov. Both as a private citizen and President of the Town Council of The Civil Town of Spring Hill, I strongly oppose this unwanted intrusion by the State of Indiana.
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This is state government overreach trying to undo Marion County/Indianapolis Unigov. Both as a private citizen and President of the Town Council of Spring Hill, I strongly oppose this unwanted intrusion by the State of Indiana.
Agreed, what a nightmare. Another solution without a problem. Is there anything these jacklegs won’t try to ruin?
Roll all the separate towns back into marion county, fire and cops become part of same. Rid ourselves of local bureaucrats, and councils, mayors. Just have township bureaucrats, same as the rest.
This is beyond stupid. 13 boards and additional
layers of bureaucracy?! “Small government” my ass! This stinks to hell of slimy corruption (it’s Young, so no surprise there. Dude is a career grifter).
What happened to the Republican platform for smaller and less government? If this is good for Indianapolis, why is it not good for the 92 other counties? Let’s create township zoning boards for the entire state?
Pure Republican power grab. Republicans lost almost all of the seats in all of the council districts, so lets punish them by taking away planning and zoning.