Thu
Nov 5 2009
06:08 pm
Magazine: Smokies ringed by ugliness
By: jbr

The News-Sentinel has put out a teaser for a Friday article about the unpleasant development that surrounds the Smoky Mountains. I would like to see some federal level zoning restrictions for buffer zones around entities like the Smokies and the national forests.

...National Geographic Traveler magazine.

The online version of the publication's sixth annual rating of worldwide destinations characterized the area as "a national treasure surrounded by a bathtub ring of ugly, unplanned development."

The article...
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National Geographic Traveler magazine's Knoxville connection

Submitted by KC on Fri, 2009/11/06 - 12:09pm.

The National Geographic Traveler's Editor-In-Chief knows what his magazine is talking about.

Keith Bellows was an editor at Whittle Communications for a number of years and had a mountain retreat over in Blount Co., if I remember correctly.

The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present.
President Abraham Lincoln 1862

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tough choices

Submitted by Anonymously Nine on Fri, 2009/11/06 - 12:43pm.

Isn't it interesting that people who do not live in Sevier County want to tell property owners what they must do with their property? Of course it could have been zoned and planned better. But what also is at issue is the rights of the people who own the land versus the demands of tourists.

A similar battle has happened across the country in Kings County, Washington.

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In the case of Kings County, Washington the pendulum swung far to the other side.

"The Peasants Press"
August 2004

Property owners in King County Washington are fighting mad. Their county government is considering the most restrictive land use law in the nation.

It is known as the 65-10 Rule, if enacted landowners will be required to set aside 65% of their property and keep it in its natural, vegetative state.

Nothing can be built on this land and if a tree is cut down it must be replanted for example. Building of any sort is prohibited.

Most of the residents that will be directly affected by the 65-10 Rule own property in rural areas of the county. They see the new regulations as a land -grab and a violation of their property rights. "My take is it's stealing- out and out stealing," said county resident Marshall Brenden.

"They're taking 65% of your land that you fought for years to pay for, paid mortgages on and now you can't use it." .

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When I saw the headline I

Submitted by Brian A. on Fri, 2009/11/06 - 2:21pm.

When I saw the headline I initially thought it was referring to the effects of air pollution.

Yes, that too.

Brian A.
I'd rather be cycling.

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