Letters

I get so sick of reading things in the paper from the people that want to keep zoning.  It’s clear that the same people keep writing. Writing the same old stuff.
I do not want zoning and I know a lot of people that want it gone, too.
Just because we aren’t public speakers or take the time to write and write and write doesn’t mean we aren’t out here.
We’re the ones that elected these supervisors in. Clearly they won, so clearly there are a lot of us get‑rid‑of‑zoning people out here.
Larry Waldridge

Carroll County Public Service Authority board member David Hutchins was recently quoted in a news report:
“When we look at our systems, we look at Fancy Gap water, and while it is funded that way, Rural Development looks at it as Carroll County has a water system.

The Grayson County supervisors meeting Jan. 9 was a very good get-together of the millionaires versus the poor people.
The three supervisors that were in control before have gone to the happy hunting ground.
The person that referred to them as the three stooges probably needs to look longer in the mirror.
The first several people that spoke had made their fortune somewhere else, then moved here to get out of the rat race, traffic, crime. Now want to live here in peace and harmony and don’t want us to have anything.

The answer to the question of whether to keep zoning is simple. Factions on both sides would like us to think it’s not.
Zoning is not about the county being able to tell you what to do, it is about your ability to tell the county what you want. If you give up zoning, whatever you like or dislike about what’s moving in next door, you will no longer have a say or even the forum to give your opinion.
Don’t listen to polarizing factions on both sides telling you what to think. The grandstanding and drama are about personal agendas and not truth.