This is extremely dry reading, and I don't expect anybody to read it, but somebody wanted to place a camping area with 40 sites in an 80 acre parcel right next to my land, and I used the things I've learned on this forum to go to a public meeting and shoot down the application. The permit had been tentatively approved and it would have devalued my land by a tremendous amount. After myself and a couple of others spoke the planning commission voted against it by 6-3. I was pretty proud of myself, but I only had Pond Boss magazine and forum information on which to go by.
http://www.ci.lincoln.ne.us/city/plan/pcminutes/2006/102506.pdf Thanks everybody for the continuous stream of information and the helpfulness. It was even televised. I talked for five minutes. After I quit talking someone asked how I was feeling and I said that I was doing fine until the point at which I broke into Portuguese.
