Local government should not oppress private landowners

Date published: 12/31/2004

The recent editorial about landowners being restricted to selling only larger parcels of their land, except within their family, fails to acknowledge the larger problem ["All in the family; Bravo for Spotsy's exempt-subdivision fix," Dec. 22].

Landowners aren't the problem; local governments are the problem. These impotent councils refuse to address what is squarely their fault. As a landowner, I should be able to sell my land to whomever I want and in whatever size I desire. These councils should restrict who builds on it and for what purpose.

Government's role is not to stand on the necks of property owners and use them as their tools. As it stands, landowners appear enslaved to the local governments, and that's a violation of basic freedoms. This process has become inverted.

Mike Cirillo

Stafford

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Date published: 12/31/2004