Press Release From County Supervisor

I'm linking this here for all of you to take a look at.

Like I've said before, I don't want to be Mr. Popular or anything, but I think it was time to shed some light on what the county was considering for approval for minor land divisions.

Here is a link to the matrix.

A couple of things. First of all, this is not the realtors fight. This issue will affect property owners throughout the county. I've been taking phone calls from landowners that live in other states since the article in the local paper came out. Most folks want more information on the proposal that the Supervisors are considering... and they are calling ME for that information. To me that is the disconnect with this issue. Landowners from out of state and local landowners simply were not noticed and have very little knowledge of the plan.

Second, in the farther out area's in the county there is plenty of private land. The land is assesed and taxes are collected. This benefits the county, doesn't it? Yes there are people who live in remote area's, but those people chose to live out there and many were the first people who became residents. These people knew in advance that there may not have been electricity to their property line, their property may not have been in a fire district, and may not have had the most accessible roads. It wasn't like there were hundreds or thousands of people living around them who suddenly left the area leaving a ghost town.

Mr. Byers is hoping for an alternative plan that us realtors will come up with. The only real alternative is to adopt the Growing Smarter legislation that was passed at the state level like other counties in Arizona have. This is the legal way for the county to go about addressing the issues they face.

Otherwise, the county might expect landowners to challenge the county in court, which is no benefit to me a property tax paying resident of Mohave County.

There will be more on this issue I'm sure. If you are a local landowner please come to the next Supervisors meeting on July 10th at 9:30am to at least hear more about how this issue may affect you. Oh and feel free to support other landowners in their quest to defeat the proposed minor land division matrix.