Community Corner
10 CAPE COD COMMISSION FACTS
Ten things you may already know about the Cape Cod Commission
Contrary to the misleading facts and data, clear misrepresentations, as well as outright lies being distributed for public consumption by the Cape Cod Commission during the last several months:
1. It does NOT live within its means, and does NOT beat the consumer price index.
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2. It does NOT save towns money.
3. It does NOT save the region money.
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4. It does NOT bring in outside money, it only sucks up other sources of taxpayer generated funding along with its ravenously consumed regular diet of public revenue.
5. The towns are NOT the Commission; they are appointed and non-elected officials and bureaucrats who are not accountable to anyone but themselves.
6. There is nothing new about the Cape Cod Commission, it still a regional bureaucratic dictatorship loading us all down with red tape and unnecessary government interference in our lives.
7. The CCC’s regulatory staff and its authority to control has been dramatically increasing during the last year.
8. The projects that it does approve take months and years to push through Commission red tape at a cost of tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. Many conditions placed upon those so called approved projects are overly burdensome to the applicant and to the community.
9. There is no such thing as an area that truly avoids Commission review. Even the highly touted Growth Incentive Zones must first be reviewed and approved by the Cape Cod Commission before becoming a GIZ. Moreover, if a project goes into a GIZ, and if the Commission feels like it, they still reserve the right to review and stop a project when all is said and done.
10. It makes little difference if the Commission's executive director is the first non-planner to hold the position. The issue and problem has to do with the bureaucratic organization that is the Cape Cod Commission, NOT about any particular person.
FINALLY, despite having made promise after promise that it would NOT pursue an “MWRA-style county-wide regional wastewater authority with taxation powers” the Cape Cod Commission in recent months has made steady but little noticed movement to do exactly that. Keep the Commission out of your pocket and out of your bathroom!
DISMANTLE THE CAPE COD COMMISSION, THAT IS THE BEST ANSWER TO ALL OF THEIR BUREACRATIC BALONEY!
