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Ballot question 2E:

"Shall the town of Erie construct or cause to be constructed a road connecting Bonanza Drive with Vista Parkway?"

Bonanza Drive is a quiet residential street connecting the Airpark residents to State Highway 7. There are homes along the street and, like many subdivisions, there are no sidewalks. Like all neighborhoods, children play in front of their homes, families take walks, and bicyclists pedal by. Ballot question 2E is asking the voters to decide whether this quiet street should be turned it into a busy artery.

Now instead of children playing in front of their homes, children will be kept inside while traffic whizzes by at high speed. This road was never designed to carry this type of traffic. Erie has standards for new developments that would never allow this scenario in a new subdivision. Is the town's failure to upgrade Bonanza Drive when the Vista Ridge community was built a justification to put Erie children at risk?

The COST $$: What will this cost? Nobody knows. Including the cost of the road connection, buying right of way to widen the road, improvements to Bonanza, possibly even purchasing or condemning houses, the cost could be staggering! The Board of Trustees is asking you to create an unfunded mandate that could ultimately cost you, the taxpayer, millions of dollars.
The REASON: Why is this needed? Some at town hall say making this connection may possibly lure another grocery store to town. If that's the case, then why doesn't the ballot question simply say so; because election laws prevent ballot language from being misleading or using false information.
The REALITY: The Mayor and others have stated that a second connection between Bonanza and Vista Parkway will bring the high volume of automobile traffic a large grocer needs. But when residents question what this would do to the safety of their children, their homes, and their neighborhood, these same trustees say the traffic is not likely to increase very much at all. So which is it? Will it or won't it bring a high volume of traffic?
BAD GOVERNMENT: Why won't the mayor let us speak? At an emergency meeting the Board of Trustees voted (4-3) to put this issue on the ballot. At that meeting, the board denied citizens the opportunity to speak publicly. Three trustees spoke up and asked that the citizens be heard, but Mayor Moore, Trustee (and mayoral candidate) Cheryl Hauger, Trustee Towner, and Trustee Pink all voted to not allow these citizens to speak. The same four individuals voted to put this issue to ballot and adjourned the meeting. Is this your definition of good government? How will you feel when your neighborhood is targeted next?

Unless bad government is stopped, every single subdivision, taxpayer, and citizen is at risk from this type of manipulation. When the government considers an issue that affects a neighborhood, a public hearing must be held allowing citizens to express their opinions and redress their grievances with their elected officials.
NOT ANYMORE.