We read all the time of new towns being born -- Leo-Cedarville may be a mouthful, but its people are creating a municipal identity -- or of towns becoming cities and cities wanting to be bigger (welcome to Fort Wayne, Aboite!). But sometimes, a place falls off the map:
The 2000 census found the 129-year-old town of Milford had a population of 121, but the commissioners decided Monday that effective Aug. 4 it will become an unincorporated community, with the county government taking its roads and other property."We cannot operate as a town," Town Board member Vickie Adams told county commissioners on Monday. "There is nothing to generate money to fix roads and make improvements. It's only a very small group of homes. I don't even know how it became a town."
A long time, 129 years, and I suspect residents will be less apathetic about the loss after it sinks in. There is a flip side, though. My brother lives outside a little place in Texas called Wimberley, the residents of which recently voted to incorporate as a town. But the new status brought a whole crop of town "leaders" who couldn't wait to start implementing and zealously enforcing a bunch of fussy rules about who could build what where and how. Now, about half the residents are clamoring for a new vote to unincorporate the place.
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Unincorporate!.... How do you get a smoking ordinance if you unincorporate. And...My GOD! What if someone p
Unincorporate!.... How do you get a smoking ordinance if you unincorporate. And...My GOD! What if someone puts up an electric sign?.. It may blink to much!... OH THE HUMANITY!!!!
Sorry that was a premature post.
They'll play hell getting a baseball stadium too!
Imagine if Fort Wayne "Unincorporated"?
1 Mayor to start it, and 5 co-conspirators to finish the job.
"UNIGOV" with the stroke of a pen.
the collapse of civilization as we know it!
Of course, the state would have to step in.
and for all you Liberals, think how crazy it would make "My Man Mitch"; trying to fix this "constitutional crisis".
1 county wide government. 1 less layer of bureaucracy. hmmm. start circulating those pink "roach for mayor" petitions.
I'm not a crook...