Meetings on land use and housing?
This is a call-out to see if anyone is interested in the possibility of public or semi-public meetings on the topic of land use, zoning and housing — in County Waterford primarily, but potentially further afield also.
In the short term, a 'virtual' meeting - using Zoom or some other video conferencing technology - might be most feasible (to avoid the costs of renting a public space, the need to travel, etc.).
Topics
Main topic: land use policies and their impact on housing availability.
The policies I’m referring to are set forth in, e.g., the Waterford County and City Council Development 2022-2028.
For more background on this topic please read the article here. I tried to explain in that article — and also in this article here — that these policies are having a huge impact on housing availability (even though they are largely ignored).
Possible sub-topics
Possible sub-topics for discussion:
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the preferential treatment accorded to immigrants and developers of IPA centres when it comes to housing (developers in such cases often being exempt from the 'hoops' that others are expected to jump through);
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the capture of the environmental movement and corruption of environmental science.
Goals
The short-term goal is simply to spread awareness about the pernicious and detrimental nature of the land-use and environmental policies that are currently effect in County Waterford (and, indeed, throughout the country at this stage). A medium to long-term goal would be to contest and challenge them - even if this means ‘breaking the law’ in some cases.
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Important
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Not about ‘lobbying’
The goal of this meeting would not be to 'lobby' councillors, TDs or senators. The anti-human nature of the laws and regulations which prohibit people from accessing and using the land — from, e.g., erecting shelters on land that they legally own or that a landowner is willing to sell them — are so obvious that their 'legality' is — in large part — immaterial. In other words: the ‘laws’ are so unjust and immoral that they don’t even deserve our respect. The goal of these meetings, in part, would be to try to help people to understand this. |
Interested?
If you are interested please send me an e-mail directly - using the e-mail address on the https://plainspeak.ie/contact page - or leave a comment below.
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