Personal agendas
In reading your editorial of Feb. 2 you had some good points and some bad points and some incomprehensible points. It was difficult to understand what your purpose was in writing the editorial until your last paragraph. You used lots of good "buzz" words but I think perhaps you missed the main points of why two members of BLUAC were dismissed. They didn't fulfill their obligations they had agreed to when appointed.
Do we run our country or maybe even your newspaper by laws or rules or do we accept what someone has perceived as precedent? Precedent doesn't always mean it conforms to rules or laws, but only by those who perceive the precedent to be correct. You stated: "Are absences the real problem here? Absolutely not." You are incorrect and this is the very rule upon which the county commissioners acted.
Other suppositions you stated which I won't comment on and which I could but it would take up your editorial page. There is one however I must say shows your naivety and my supposition that you have never spent much of your young life or time living in a large city. Yes, you are correct. Bigfork will never be LA or NY and yes there will probably never be an eight-lane freeway through our village. The reasons are obvious. There are no jobs here to support that kind of growth, but for the density of the population we have Highway 35 and 83 and 93 have become at certain hours of the day highways, which would resemble an equivalent of some freeways. Especially when compared to this valley 30-40 years ago.
If as you say the BLUAC serves the community it seems statistically incomprehensible that 99.5 percent of subdivisions presented to this committee at least in the last eight years have been approved. It would be nice if BLUAC could put aside personal agendas at not approve every subdivision that comes before them. It seems hard though when one states he has more knowledge about planning in Bigfork than anyone else on the board and he should be there. That doesn't compute as a willingness to change.
Lee Wight
Bigfork