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Johnson County Missouri
Planning and Zoning Election - 1997 Election
For information about the zoning issue for 2008-9, please see P&Z Home Page

Index to 1997 Documents

Info updated 8/29/2006

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This site contains documents & analysis relating to the 1997 attempt to impose county-wide planning. The attempt failed, garnering only about 29% of the vote.

For economic and philosophical rationale to oppose zoning, see this Thomas Sowell column.

• The temporary commission members were trying to make a livable, workable plan.
• The consultants did not tailor the plan to our county. After several months, lots of area meetings, and 3 very long work sessions (in the week before the public hearings) with the temporary commission, there are still many critical areas not ironed out.
• It has never been made very convenient to view the interim revisions of the plan.

The rest of this analysis is broken down into several areas. For your convenience, each is on a separate page.

Reviews of the "Factual Answers" published in the Warrensburg Daily Star Journal on 10/21/97 thru 10/30/97