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BRAVE NEW WEST (The Comic Strip) Episode #3: The ‘Stinkin Bovines’…by Jim Stiles
I’m sharing this. Our beautiful Carson Valley is filling fast with CA refugees, but the local ranchers are holding strong … I think … I hope. They’re looking for alternative revenue sources, but struggling against the nimbys. One rancher tried twice to put solar arrays on their land, but were shot down by the County. Apparently, one lone commissioner and her cronies had the power to stop them. The rancher FINALLY got the okay, after the smoke cleared and the gunnies ran out of ammo, to create a housing-agricultural land use design FOR THEIR OWN LAND. Their plan put a cap of 2600 houses. If that plan didn’t go through, the cap would have come off and developers could build 16,000 houses. The new commission has instated a moratorium on building permits and many others are being reviewed and closed. Somebody finally got a clue.
A pox on both!