Attend meeting to oppose adding new land use regulations

Submitted by Margaret Lohman
Posted 1/16/25

Dear editor:

Heads up landowners and freedom lovers! Please note, the newly accepted Land Use Plan for Park County is a template for regulation. Now Park County has moved into writing new …

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Attend meeting to oppose adding new land use regulations

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Dear editor:

Heads up landowners and freedom lovers! Please note, the newly accepted Land Use Plan for Park County is a template for regulation. Now Park County has moved into writing new regulation. The plan is illegal, it is not constitutional. It’s taking without compensation. It’s also illegal because it’s not representative. It doesn’t represent landowners. It doesn’t serve the people. It serves the administrative state, the government. 

The plan promises no new growth, which it cannot possibly deliver. Instead, the plan transfers power from the private to the public sector promising to keep the fields open. 

Why shouldn’t the farmers and ranchers be able to control their own land and labor? This same question could be applied to anyone and any situation. Just take out the words farmers and ranchers and fill in your own identity words. 

The power to tax and regulate is the power to destroy. Once a regulation is written it is LAW.

We already have severe land-use laws. A person doesn’t just do something with their land. They go to the courthouse, ask permission, apply and pay fees. The county decides yes or no. This is a simplified version, multiply by 10. Or they deny which brings up the question of who actually owns the land? The taxpaying landowner or the government?

The county now could add more laws on top of what’s there. People who believe the county can stop growth will be there in support. If there’s no opposition the county commissioners will be able to grow the power of Park County via more regulations (laws). 

This is an important fight. Put down your shovels, take off your work gloves, join the resistance against local government enlarging itself. Come Jan. 27, 1:15 p.m. to the Cody Library Grizzly Room and speak!

Margaret Lohman

Cody

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