Legislative Goals of RPCs Revealed – Agenda 21
The 2012-2013 legislative goals of NH’s Regional Planning Commissions have been revealed.
Agenda 21 has not passed Congress and is not a treaty. Its strategies are being implemented throughout the U.S. as “soft law.” It was endorsed by U.S. President G. H. W. Bush at the United Nations 1992 Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit.
In this document entitled “2012-2013 Legislative Policies and Priorities” the executive committee of the NH Association of Regional Planning Commissions has set out their “action” priorities for the upcoming legislative session regarding bills they should “support, oppose, or propose”.
These goals are not the creation of the people of the state of NH, but are taken right from the American Planning Association playbook. A federally created NGO, the American Planning Association, published the Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook: Model Statutes for Planning and the Management of Change, 2002 Edition and its User Manual in order to provide model planning and zoning bills for use in any U.S. state. The theme is government control of land use, with no regard for private property rights.
In this video of the Strafford County Regional Planning Commission they start discussing the NH Association of Regional Planning Commission Policy document at 54:40.
This meeting took place on August 17, 2012.
Some of the more disturbing declarations on the sheet, our comments in parentheses:
Under Sustainability:
#8. Support appropriate mechanisms for regional water, wastewater, septic tank waste, stormwater and solid waste management and facilities.
(Does this mean we may be taxed on the water we take from our private wells, how much septic waste we discharge, or prohibit the collection of rainwater? Sure sounds like it.)
Under Prosperity:
#1. Support workforce housing.
(What has this got to do with sustainability? This has more to do with redistribution of the wealth, and citifying of rural and suburban areas into labor centers.)
#2. Promote and support sustainable, regional economic development consistent with NHARPC planning principles.
(As we mentioned before, these ideas came from the American Planning Association, an NGO created by the federal government. It bills itself as a “not-for-profit educational organization that provides leadership in the development of vital communities”. So we ask, what authority does it have?)
#4. Work closely with State and local governments in promoting regional economic development in partnership with business organizations.
(Public, Private Partnerships, or PPPs, is the government, using your taxpayer money to fund the private sector. This is the work of NGOs, corporations and their foundations, NOT the taxpayers, and they are NOT accountable.)
#5. Encourage mixed-use developments in areas where appropriate.
(This is a push to move people from rural and suburban areas into cities)
Under Livability:
#1. Promote smart growth. (This includes managing water, food, transportation, fuel, housing, just about everything, not just roads.)
#2. Support policies which strengthen municipal and regional planning authority. (This is probably the most concerning. Authority to impose regulations from top down, unelected commissions.)
Remember, these planning commissions and water commissions are top-down unelected bureaucrats funded by your tax dollars making rules and laws that will affect YOUR private property, across the whole state. In most cases no taxpayers asked for these changes. Just one of the nine (9) Regional Planning Commissions alone gets $2.5M in funding, most of it from you the taxpayers.
Please read about how the Water Sustainability Commission was created and functions without your input.
Don’t just sit there, go to these meetings in your town and FIGHT for your rights! Town meetings will be attacked this spring in Ma, Maine and NH!
This is top down planning reminiscent of the Soviet Union. Next thing you know you’ll be required to fill the rooms in your suburban homes with extra inhabitants because your home is considered ‘sprawl’ and too big for just you alone.