The powers that be in West Jefferson, Ashe County, want to overlay an ETJ on people who don’t want it. The reasons expressed by the opposition are the same as always. They don’t want the city putting sleaze shops in their neighborhoods, they don’t want to go homeless because they can’t afford to build to code should something happen to their grandfathered abode, they think billboards are actually good for the private-sector economy, and they want the power to vote any bum who would subject them to hyper-regulation and make them pay for the “service” out of office.