‘Smart growth’ letter spot-on
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Editor,
The letter to the editor “Smart growth not so smart” stated the issue very well. Orton Heart and Soul is having a hand in misdirecting money from many of the responsibilities that the city should be focusing on, like streets, sewage and water maintenance. Orton states in its catalogue, “The Orton Family Foundation helps engage and empower people in small cities and towns to make land-use decisions inspired by their community’s heart and soul.”
Their 11 directors are strong Smart Growth advocates who use International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives tools to promote their UN Agenda 21 program in many small towns. Beside projects like bike and walking paths, designed to minimize the use of cars and fossil fuels, they write “regulatory plans, policies, and ordinances” via skewed data collected at these Heart and Soul gatherings. This is more than just the storytelling like was mentioned at the Feb. 6, 2012, city council meeting.
UN Agenda 21 is a plan to force small towns and cities to conform to their international standard using laws, regulations and taxes. Once the system is in place, the bureaucracy structure makes it nearly impossible to find personal justice within the system. I suggest that the people of Polson work to stop this before it get too far entrenched.
Andrew Speer
Polson
