Jackson Jambalaya

Isn't the salvinia all dead now? According the them right? Sigh

NIMBY!

Quite an impressive agenda

Is this the corner lot by Fox Bay, across from Northshore Elementary?

Spot zoning at its best. A single parcel.

It was rezoned general commercial after 3 request from convience store owners/companies. No public notice of change. We're the Rez. we don't care what you think. I have heard they have over 1800 complaints against this change, including mine.

Location backs up to Fox Bay, across from school, across from Bay Pointe Pine Ridge entrance and at a dangerous high traffic high speed intersection. There is virtually no traffic enforcement on Northshore or Old 471.

@6:56 am- Yes. They quietly rezoned that parcel so that a gas station/convenience store can go there. The way it went down was pretty shady. Not sure if it’s still available but a recording of the PRV meeting in which the re-zoning was approved was/is online. Needless to say, local residents are not happy and are hoping to get the decision reversed. Anyone who is opposed needs to attend the meeting at 9:30 this morning and speak up.

So is this land that was stolen from property owners through eminent domain for the reservoir and unneeded for the reservoir, and now being controlled by the board for graft? Sorry, grown quite cynical.

7:15 there are laws about changing zoning. Your remedy is probably in the court.

If Sigman and his merry band of lawyers and experts are in favor of it, BEWARE! Meanwhile, take a drive through Madison and out to PRV property at the neighborhood called Haley Creek and the roadside dumps in yards along north Old Rice. No rules, no enforcement, no codes, nothing. Just rent it out and let it turn to shit. Then construct an agenda for another meeting.

PRV is a state agency. It has no zoning authority. They are discussing a change in their land use master plan.

I live close by to this location and all of the surrounding neighborhoods are against it. I know they have been circulating a petition, and last I checked it had close to 1,700 signatures. It is not a huge chunk of land and looks like it would back right up to Fox Bay. It's really unnecessary.

This zoning is stupid. You already have a gas station right down the road at Pelahatchie Bay and on Holly Bush. The only reason they are doing this is for income. This board and Sigman are totally clueless and have no vision. Everything goes to the highest bidder. That intersection is already congested and not big enough for the traffic.

Does anyone know why or when they changed their enforcement from Reservoir Patrol to Reservoir Police? Those MELOTA rejects are on a power trip and do nothing but harass. Remember when they said we couldn't use The REZ with our families due to COVID and they were posting Easter sunrise pictures? Maybe Bobby Cleveland can save us!

The Rez is a nice place to live, but the PRVWSD is a farce. They're sitting on more cash than the City of Madison, and the leasehold payments are statutorily required to INCREASE 10% every 5 years.

The Board is not elected, so - to the commenter who suggested opposed parties be present and express opposition - good luck with that idea.

As bad as the convenience store sham is, look at Hwy 25 at 471. I believe those are PRV properties (as they have PRV no hunting signs on them) and HUGE dump trucks of rocks to build access are being put down. And in addition they are clearing trees. All in the last few weeks.

No way this doesn't increase runoff in Pelahatchie Creek, which will flood homeowners and pollute Jackson's water source. I fear PRVWSD has cut corners on any Corps of Engineers permitting on wetlands. Or, hopes to.

This Sigman needs to go. Quick. And, yes, Tater, we are looking at you, too.

The PRVWSD board has to go. The stupid decisions are getting out of hand. Whether it's shutting down P Bay for years, lowering the Causeway speed limit to 35 (when it's straight as an arrow, lit at night, etc and was 45 mph before, with the dam being 55 mph in theory and 75 mph in practice), it's as though Sigman Et Al are doing everything humanly possible to affect negatively the Rankin County Rez.

Remember putting in a low rent trailer for the PRV cop to live in at the already atrocious "campground" (where trailers are permanent)?

It just goes on and on and on, with NO code enforcement for anyone with a trailer and a leasehold fee. NO accountability.

Taxation (leaseholders pay ALL revenue for the Rez, with no additional rights) without Representation.

The dot-not-feather-immigrant desire to sell liquor is a powerful desire. This effort is 100% about being able to add liquor sales to the usual gas station fare offered by our friends from the orient. Unfortunately for them, they didn't read the fine print. This location is prohibitively close to the elementary school. If someone would tell Mr. Patel this, he might direct his search elsewhere.

Wait until you find out it’s really going to be a dollar general or a Walmart.

little birdy told me that it will get nixed. T

"PRV is a state agency. It has no zoning authority. They are discussing a change in their land use master plan."

Nice try. The master plan of this state agency manager and board amounts exactly to zoning. Call it what you will. When a public (ha) body determines land use, it's zoning. When they do that in a heavy handed manner without public input and consideration of opposition outcry, it's fascism at its finest. It's who Sigman and the board are.

@9:02

As a Rez resident, I am also frustrated at how the district is managed, but as long as I/we pay to maintain Jackson's water alone (while living above the dam), I don't care much about the water quality in Jackson.

Changing the Master Plans is the first step in changing how property is used which is what zoning is all about. This District can legally control land use but is not exactly zoning. Same outcome .

11:48 - I'm not real sure, but I think you just sorta agree this is an example of zoning. The only difference being that in order to change zoning, you have to go through a legal process. In the case of PRVWSD, you ain't gotta do shit but sit around an oak table with sandwiches and make a new land use plan, which is zoning.

Until this "Board" stops creating positions for people who need a job and start doing their job instead of riding around looking at vacant lots, nothing will ever get done. Well some things might