Thoughts from a Sumner County Resident

Let’s look at the standard business practices of your new neighbors:

• They create false corporations to buy property so not to alert the community involved.
• They hold town 'informational' meetings that let the villagers vent their frustrations while confident that their plans march forward with no impediments.
• They take a lot and their only offering is an eventual 'projected' jobs number. A small, key percentage of which will no doubt be held by people moved in from their other locations.
• And they stand there waiting for trust, trust that the noise, air, traffic and land pollution levels will be minimal.

Have they ever lost a location? Have their lawyers ever failed to get the zoning board to come to their position? Do they even have a contingency plan for the land in place, in case they lose?

There's been talk of a turning lane to accommodate the semi and dump truck traffic. Whose land is that going to come out of? I realize that it will be only a what, twelve, maybe fifteen feet with shoulder have those landowners been notified or will it be confiscated out of community need later on?

How many years do they give us to move graves and have archaeologists excavate Indian ruins or do we have to bring in backhoes and rip everything out of the ground after history is evicted.

Finally, go to Google images tab, and type in asphalt plant and quarry. This is the view your county will say is acceptable for you to live with, most of that council and zoning board will never have to deal with it, and they will hem and haw but they will reluctantly approve this machine. They will, and should, lose their posts in the next election cycle, but much too late, the damage will be done. All they need, just this one tiny thing, is your zoning approval, then they can play the game any way they see fit. If it's not tonight, they'll wait, maybe try another tactic, some financial or legal hocus pocus, but they won't go away now, after all, they have all this land...

A lifelong Sumner County resident,

Kilie Hartness