Stop “Smart Growth” Mission Statement

Repeal of Wisconsin’s “Comprehensive Planning Law”

Because we are based in Wisconsin our primary goal is to get the “Wisconsin Comprehensive Planning Law”, otherwise known as the “Smart Growth Law”, repealed as soon as possible. This law causes small communities to spend tens of thousands of dollars creating a “plan” that is, for the most part, completely unnecessary. It will also eventually lead to the removal of property rights from many Wisconsin citizens and communities.

Curb governments desire to subsidize mass transit at any cost.

The citizens of Madison are paying over $150 per household a year for a bus system that serves less then 1% of the rider miles in the Madison metropolitan area. Riders of the bus pay less then 20% of the cost. Governments are increasingly proposing expensive rail systems of mass transit. If the taxpayers are going to continue subsidizing mass transit, laws must be passed to enforce a minimum percentage that riders must pay.

Stop governments from buying land for no purpose other then stopping development.

Federal, state, and local governments currently own over 60% of the land in the United States, and over 18% in Wisconsin. What will happen when the government owns all the developable and/or farm land? Who will decide who gets to use the land, what they get to do with it, and what is allowed to be developed or grown on it? The constitution says the land is the people’s and should be owned by the people, not the government.

Stop schools in the United States from teaching “Sustainable Development” to our children.

Many schools throughout the United States are currently teaching our children that we are living an “unsustainable lifestyle” and that we must be herded into sardine cans to preserve land. They are attempting to eliminate the American Dream by teaching our children lies. We are letting the United Nations set the curriculum for our schools and this must stop.

The withdrawal of the United States from the United Nations “Sustainable Development Agenda 21”

When George H.W. Bush signed the Rio Accords in 1991, he obligated (without constitutional authority) federal agencies to implement U.N. Sustainable Development Agenda 21 within the United States. When Bill Clinton created the President’s Council for Sustainable Development by Executive Order in 1992, “Smart growth” was proposed as one remedy for our “unsustainable” lifestyles. This is what has given legitimacy and millions of dollars to the whole “Smart Growth” movement.