Deseret News | Reader comments: Wasatch County town of Independence to be incorporated

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Wasatch County town of Independence to be incorporated

Steve | 8:12 a.m. April 9, 2008

I've been a city planner for several decades and can tell you that MOST OF THE TIME, incorporation by tiny bedroom communities is a big mistake. Sure everyone wants the ability to enjoy self-governance; however, the costs involved in running a town over the next few years are going to escalate dramatically and these residents are going to be held captive by their lack of a tax base. Residential development never pays its own way. Without commercial and industrial development to help offset the cost of basic services, the few residents in the town are going to be wondering why they ever agreed to incorporate.

HORRIBLE LAW | 8:30 a.m. April 9, 2008

The "automatic incorporation" law is HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE!

Any legislator that voted in favor of that stupid law should be voted out of office, and barred from holding any position of responsibility. DO NOT RE-ELECT GREG CURTIS OR MEL BROWN, or any other senator or representative that supported this law.

It is a travesty and disenfranchises the citizens of Utah.

The legislature compounded their stupidity by failing to correct their stupid mistake. They should have repealed the law altogether and disincorporated any town that was created.

It is clear that the development community runs this state, and we are just serfs.

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