The Town of Boone is overhauling the UDO. Property rights activists earn ridicule for despising remote-control, broad-brush micromanagement. The idiots suppose no man is perfect and that the many are more intelligent than the few. Silly. Plans are perfect, and that is why the UDO had to be revised to “address inconsistencies” and “clarify definitions.”
“We are just amazed at how much one little thing spreads tentacles throughout the entire code,” [Boone Planning and Inspections Director Bill] Bailey told the council Wednesday. “That’s part of the problem we’ve run into.”
Imagine that. The ever-unpopular Christopher Chiaromonte, who poses as a false prophet and makes a life out of appearing on TV cursing members of Asheville City Council, actually is right about half the time. At the last meeting, he leaned into council for micromanaging property beginning with the words, “Perfect little ant farm.”
The following provides further evidence of the document’s immaculate perfection and absence of any hint of arbitrariness:
“We are not personally vested,” [town planner Jane] Shook said. “We are not being insulted if you want to change or radically change what we presented to you.”
