response back

Dear Joel,
My intent was to bring forward an idea, not a finished plan. So the many questions
you raise about planning,parks, etc. would need to be thrashed out before such an
evolution took place. Of no real relevance, my personal choice before hearing a
good debate on the subject would be yes to the services you list. If an area chose
to remain unincorporated, it would not have a borough (thanks for helping on the spelling!) tax rate added, but the county might have a higher rate/1000 for unincorporated
areas relying more heavily on county services. I am not really trying to nail down details,
but to present a concept, given that I feel that the present government cannot cope
with a growing island of the physical size and community diversity (of lifestyles,not
people) we face now and in the future.
Any plan to divide the county, or to provide sub-county levels of government will be of the order of a 10 year project. Then the comments that you and others have made- that
we must try to elect a good set of council members and participate- is in my opinion
100% correct- whether or not there is sentiment for subdivision. These are parallel points
I think, not competing. Our choices are either to try to elect council
members who will respect the wishes of the people, or to do that while working for
additional or different governmental organization. We do not have the luxury of 'either,or'.
regards,Marshall