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Editorial - August 2002 |
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County does poor job of communicating August 12, 2002 - Lincoln County Commissioners and Lincoln County Schools officials have heard an earful from irate residents who were not notified that nearby property on St. James Church Road was to be developed for a new school. The planning process apparently was ignored as far as citizen input early on.. It was especially irksome to one landowner who suddenly saw trees being cleared from property that didn’t even belong to the school district — a mistake on the part of the contractor. She has since been offered compensation for her land. The complaints surfaced at last week’s Board of Commissioners meeting when the request for a new zoning classification allowing the school to locate at the site came up for discussion. Lincoln County Planning Board members made it clear they were disappointed with the way the project was planned. “No planning was done on this project,” Planning Board member Stanley Roseboro said. “It was like somebody got together at night and said, ‘Go for it.’” Jerry Geymont, planning board chairman, said the planning board was blind-sided by this issue. “There was a lack of communication between the school board and commissioners,” Geymont said. “The commissioners assumed the school board had handled this and talked to neighbors.” The school was originally slated to be built on property on Optimist Road. Plans changed when the Lincoln County School System was given the 20 acres of land. Residents are not against the school — their main concern is a growing traffic problem and the safety of neighbors and children. The rezoning was granted, and school officials are saying the traffic should not be too much of a problem when compared to other busy school locations. Lincoln County officials should learn from this exercise in bad public relations that they have an obligation to inform citizens when they allow any new building project to proceed. It certainly doesn’t make much sense to allow the clearing of land before a zoning permit is obtained. That’s a big cart before the horse. We appreciate the tone of these citizens, who made their complaints known, while also offering their support for the school. Their request that the county inform them of pending building projects is very reasonable.
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© 2001 Lincoln Times-News |
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