There is a 'silent majority' behind us on this. It's human nature that you don't get involved in something until you're worked up. There may also be some degree of thinking out there that the right thing in the end will just happen because it's so obvious. Chaffee said society is entering a new phase, one that dictates careful land-use zoning as the population grows and sprawl continues. American culture is moving out of the Wild West, frontier days.
Government has to step in here.
You don't want it done dictatorially, but we still must provide a careful, thoughtful regulation of development for the good of everybody and to protect the environment. Chaffee expects the bluff law's provisions to be diluted as it's revised. The goal is to keep the integrity of the law, but also make it more palatable to more people. The revised bluff law should get another public hearing sometime next month. By Phil Pfuehler Spring has finally sprung and it wasted no time tearing through River Falls with the first serious seasonal storm.