Cornell Cooperative Extension – Rural Tompkins County

“The World According to Doctrine” — Form Based Code Cornell [formerly Lansing] NY

Form Based Codes are a simplified form; for a simplified government: themselves. Form Based Codes bring zoning into line with modern authoritative thinking: 100% public comments – 0% meaningful participation.

Form Based Codes are the perfect tool for Urban Colonialism: the preservation of urban spaces – and the resettlement and destruction of the rural community. A “streamlined” tool for taking.

“The real tragedy of these small enclaves of marginality and poverty is that people are playing a game of life that has been structured in such a way that they are required to play but prevented from winning.” — Janet Fitchen, “Poverty in Rural America”

In rural New York; No one can hear you scream.

“The World According to Doctrine” — Ithaca: the place where everybody wants to live

Ithaca is the place where everybody wants to live: because it’s the only place in the county where people have individual worth.

While Ithaca rules the county – it never leads by example. Their plan to blanket rural Lansing with CAFOs is balanced by their own petition to the New York State Supreme Court: enumerating serious concerns about lack of CAFO and Agricultural regulation and oversight, lack of disclosure, and the possible effects of modern farming practices on their own residents and the their own town’s environment. Lansing’s puppet government has expressed no concerns at all.

Ithaca is Camelot: A castle community where people dump their slop on the unprotected commoners outside the walls – without a second thought.

Where would you want to live?

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Tompkins County: New Mottos” Bumper sticker

“Tompkins County: Creating rural communities where drugs, crime and poverty can thrive.”

“Policy Appropriate” mottos would be a great help in raising public awareness of the ongoing destruction of rural Tompkins County.

It’s not the self-serving evil of Urban Colonialism that sets it apart – it’s the repressiveness of its policies.

And if Cornell isn’t responsible – why is it always at the center of the web?

Part 6 – Sewers of the Land

The influence of rich and powerful interests in maintaining the status quo in the face of an ever increasing destruction of the environment, is nowhere better seen than in Tompkins County’s handling of agricultural pollution.

The Tompkins County Comprehensive Plan’s representation of environmental issues and policies is a careful dance around the facts — Facts that paint a very different picture of the sources of pollution in the county, and expose an elitist policy making agenda.

Part 6 – Sewers of the Land

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Part 2 – Debunking the Lansing Ag Plan

The three greatest factors in the approval of the Lansing Agriculture and Farmland Protection Plan are:

The plan was never critically examined or allowed to be publicly questioned.
Lansing’s rural families were unrepresented by any state, local or county agency or government representative, and prevented from having any meaningful participation in the plan themselves.
The lives and welfare of rural families living in the affected area of Lansing are of no importance whatsoever to the people who created and support this plan.

Part 2 – Debunking the Lansing Ag Plan

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Part 1 – The Death of Meaningful Public Participation

Today’s rural residents have no place in Tompkins County’s future.

This statement is based on more than two years of research and review, questions and public meetings concerning the most recent Agriculture and Comprehensive Plans of Lansing and Tompkins County, NY.

Part 1 – Death of Meaningful Public Participation

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