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Ryan Maier for Lake Worth City Commission
What Ryan says:
Roads, Infrastructure, Traffic Calming
Our aged infrastructure is a problem. Streets, sidewalks and storm drains need to be fixed and traffic calming solutions must be implemented. I will work across all districts to create a fair, fiscally responsible plan that incorporates public input.
Economic Development
We must leverage our arts and tourism assets to bring new businesses and industry to town. My background makes me the candidate best suited to move Lake Worth’s art hub vision to reality. Our commercial and industrial areas, including the Park of Commerce, are the key to reducing the burden on homeowners.
Smart Growth
Last year, the voters overwhelmingly approved height limits that would preserve the small town feel that has attracted so many people to Lake Worth. I will champion the fight to put the election results in our City Charter as demanded by the voters. Only then will Lake Worth attract thoughtful, well-planned development that we can be proud of.
Safety
Safety is a concern in every neighborhood. I will work with PBSO to expand patrols in our neighborhoods to discourage criminal activity before it happens. We deserve to feel safe in our homes, in our neighborhoods and throughout our city.
Code Compliance
Absentee landlords and vacant bank-owned properties create unsafe conditions, encourage criminal activity and wreak havoc on our property values. I will demand that code compliance focus on these situations.
Environment
As a coastal community, our environment is especially critical. We have wonderful assets such as the Lake Worth Beach, Snook Island Boardwalk, and Bryant Park that serve our residents and draw visitors to our town. Whether it’s the mangroves that protect our shoreline or the turtle-friendly beach lighting, we have a duty to maintain and properly manage our parks, public land and natural areas for future generations.
City Hall
I do not take the public trust lightly. It is time to restore transparency to City hall and again be a Commission that welcomes public input. Decisions must be made “in the sunshine” and potential development plans should be made public. You have a right to know what is happening inside City Hall and a right to have your vote count.
And a lake worth community college. Maybe right on lake Osborne plenty of places for them to rent. They would love it. Maybe right where they were talking of putting the baseball fields. That would be a great addition to our city.
ReplyDeleteMaier said a small college and I believe that he was talking about a technical college of some type although he was not specific. A perfect place would be the Park of Commerce. If that area is not zoned for education, I am sure that by a simple waiver that this commission always IMPLEMENTS FOR ITS FRIENDS or a zoning change could cure that problem.
ReplyDeleteYour sarcasm and hatred are both noted.
Here's a hypothetical: Maier is elected. His first priority is to make the heights referendum part of the Charter. He asks to put it on the agenda. At his first meeting, if he's not absent, he moves that the city place the results of the referendum in the charter.
ReplyDeleteScenario #1: Can't get a second from Serge, Scott, Andy or the Mayor and it dies for lack of a second.
Scenario #2: His motion is seconded by McVoy. Blue cards fly up to the dias, the room is packed, TV stations are there per request to witness this new guy "shaking up" the commission. The city attorney again explains with excruciating detail why the vote is null and void and any action taken regarding the null and void vote would also be null and void.
Throngs and throngs of impassioned pleas of how the sun will be blotted out, the breeze will be diminished and life as we know it will forever be altered if we allow even one (more) building over 45 feet high in our city, even right next to an 85 feet tall building.
After hours of tears and gnashing of teeth, a vote is called and........... motion fails 3 to 2.
BECAUSE IT IS NULL AND VOID!!!
You spent a lot of time writing that--
ReplyDeleteThe answer is and has always been--
IT MUST BE DECIDED BY A COURT OF LAW.
Maier didn't say anything about suing. He has maintained that the very first thing he will do if elected is to make that vote count. Make it part of our charter. The question is what will he do once elected and he cannot honor his most important campaign promise?
ReplyDeleteMaier will stand up for the will of the voters whether this commission is against the people or not..which they are. He is willing to fight for voters rights.
ReplyDeleteThe City attorneys based their failure to change the Charter to what the people voted for on an ex post facto law enacted by the legislature.
ReplyDeleteEx post facto laws are unenforceable in criminal law and have been rejected in civil cases as well;IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN WHETHER THE ATTORNEYS WILL BE SUCCESSFUL IN CONVINCING A COURT TO SIDE WITH THEM.
"No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed."
ReplyDeleteSection 9 ARTICLE I
Constitution of the united States
Why we got ticked at the king:
ReplyDelete"For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:
For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us."
Declaration of Independence
Regarding the height referendum , Lynn Anderson said "IT MUST BE DECIDED BY A COURT OF LAW." Didn't Laurel Decker go to court about the referendum? Didn't she drop her case?
ReplyDeleteThis has been answered so many times here @4:50.
ReplyDeleteLynn, when you say he will stand up for the will of the people, what exactly is the will of the people? Is the fact that only 25 more people voted on way than the other make it such a clear "will?" Seems like there are more than just one will of the people, so which one will he stand up for? I mean, if we all agreed 100% on every issue, politics would be easy and you and Wes' blogs would have no purpose, but that will never happen. So I ask again, which "will of the people" will he stand up for, yours or mine? If he chooses mine, will you respect that decision that he stood up for my will or is it only if someone stands up for your will that they are doing the right thing?
ReplyDeleteIf you have listened to him in any of the forums, he is talking about the heights vote that was won by 57% of the voters.
ReplyDeleteOh ok, sorry I missed that. So what is over the next few years a bunch of new people move to lw and/or the current residents change their mind and the majority want to increase height limits. Is he going to support that because that is what the majority wants or is he going to continue to fight against it because he is personally against it?
ReplyDeleteHe is personally against developers building higher than what the people want in our downtown. 57% percent is not something to ignore.
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