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Puc 4. Section 1 THE BASTROP ADVERTISER AND COUNTY NEWS Thursday, December 6, 1984
Issues and Opinions
LETTERS
Bastrop in need of professional city planner
Large real estate projects are
Iflowers it
popping up like wildflowers in the
area between Basttop Memorial
Hospital and FM 969, destined to
be the biggest future retail and tax
producing part of Bastrop.
As reported in our Monday edi-
tion, a 20-acre shopping center is
planned by Jack F. Peevy on land
sold by Gordon Rosanky. In addi-
tion, a large subdivision is almost
set for the north side of Old Austin
Highway and additional shopping
centers are in final neogotiation
stages.
The city, however, stands virtu-
ally naked in front of the unrush-
ing events. It has had no serious
planning work by professionals or
amateurs for years. Its Planning
and Zoning Commission has never
said where the city should grow
next or what services should be ex-
tended or whether any special, con-
ditions should be met on streets,
landscpaing or public facilities. In
fact, outside handling routine zon-
ing and variance requests and the
issue of mobile home parks. The
Planning Commission has done no
discemabie planning in years. The
City Council has hired an outside
planner to update zoning maps and
do other work but it’s not clear
what his responsibility is or how
far his work will go. He needs a
broader mandate.
Perhaps events automatically
take care of such details.
But we have never heard of a
citizenry and a city that got hold
of its own destiny without getting
professional advice, public input
and then taking action.
And we know of plenty of
places—Austin comes to mind
most forcefully-where local tax-
payers had to come in later and
new sections combined with histor-
ic restoration and landscaping of
older sections are going to make
this one of the finest communities
in the nation. We are certain of it.
Much of the work going on now
growth also? And who should pay
what portion? Those kinds of de-
cisions can’t be made without
professional studies on population,
property values, soils etc, Where
the city is going affects all the other
decisions.
“We urge City Councilmen to hire a
professional planner either as a staff mem*
her or on a contract basis to help us
through the exciting, confusing and re
warding next few years.”
We urge City Coju*#l*ien to
hire a professional panner either
as a staff member or on a contract
basis to help us through the excit-
ing, confusing and rewarding next
few years.
And we urge the city to talk with
La Grange and Smithville officials
about requirements to become cer-
tified as a 5,000 population city
eligible to have home rule. Getting
the home rule designation and
adopting a city charter, after study
and an election, will make it easi-
er for Bastrop to annex key land
to protect its tax base.
spend a lot of money to clean up
messes left over because of the lack
of planning.
Economic growth of Bastrop in
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It’s open season
for burglaries
Here’s what you can do
to protect your home
Mark or label your most valuable posessions, making it
harder for burglars to sell them
InstaMtrong locks and night lights. Put broom handles
on the bottom of sliding or patio doors
Organize a neighborhood watch and take down license
plate numbers of strange or prowling trucks and cars in
your neighborhood
Get a low cost homeowners protection policy from us.
The
Maynard Agency
1108 Main, Bastrop Phone 321-2584
Next to the U.S. Post Office
Hospital Patients As Of December 3
or planned, some of it viewed with
apprehension by localites, will
eventually make residents even
more proud of Bastrop. Wait and
‘ Our greed caused this’
Bruce Barton
Joseph Deaver
Lillian Gist
Frieda Pounds
see..
All that’s missing is official city
direction and mechanisms to put in
place orderly rather than haphaz-
ard development. For instance,
how big should utility pipes be that
are required in the new section?
Should they accomodate future
Dear Editor:
The media is rife with items
about tax reform proposals to hack
the deficit. We must face the harsh
reality that economically we are in
“the moral equivalent of war,’’ to
quote Jimmy Carter.
This mismanagement of our
money has been progressive
through the years with Congress
providing everything for every-
body. All segments and levels of
Hospital, police thanked
Dear Editor:
This is my second experience
with need for Bastrop Sheriffs
Department and City Police. Both
excellent.
My neighbor, Ray Sharp, was
burned severely with an explosion
of a radiator hose. It blew up in his
face and chest.
My husband J.D. took him to the
He was met at the city limits with
a police escort to the emergency
room.
We are very fortunate to have
such a well-staffed place.
Bastrop hospital where he was met
a well-
with a well-provided staff and
received immediate treatment.
The doctors were very consider-
ate, and the hospital staff couldn’t
have been nicer.
Let’s give credit where credit is
due. My thanks to all.
Betty Burrow,
Lake Bastrop Acres
jBastrop JVbberttser
(County JCctus
TEXAS’ OLDEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
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our society have been subsidized,
to include liberal tax exemptions
and amortization write-offs for in-
vestors.
Collectively reviewed as such,
our greed has caused all this. Most
recipients of these subsidies do not
see it this way. We need a nation-
al defense second to none but
where our money goes here should
be given a hard look.
The ax will swing and we will
be condemning or cheering
Reagan
If this was Reagan ’s sole doing
he would be a dictator. Being thi
leader of our free Republic, he will
be the punching bag during the try-
ing times ahead.
Spencer McClure
Bastrop
Two McDade
residents at
Texas ’86 meet
Ivy Ann Cronen, Chairman, ano
Audrey Rother, Co-Chairman, of
the McDade Sesquicentennial
Committee, were among several
hundred Sesquicentennial planners
who met last weekend at Austin’s
Sheraton-Hilton Crest Inn to learn,
more about the Texas Sesquicen-
tennial celebration of 1986.
The Hon. Myra McDaniel,
Secretary of State, addressed
representatives from many of the
1,152 Sesquicentennial organiza-
tions currently active in Texas. On
the agenda of this first “Sesquicen-
tennial Leaders’ Conference” were
reports by many organizers of the
major statewide projects, as well
as a variety of how-to-do-it ses-
sions on such topics as special
event planning, school-based
projects, fund raising, oral histo-
ry, and promotion and publicity.
According to Dr. Emmie Crad-
dock, Chairman of the Texas
Sesquicentennial Commission,
“The Leaders’ Conference was the
first major opportunity for
representatives of the thousands of
persons active in planning the
state’s Sesquicentennial celebration
to get together, meet each other,
and learn from each other. Our job
was to organize a training work-
shop that met the practical needs
of these volunteer planners.”
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