Several neighbors and friends from the Union area have written letters to the editor in favor of the Midvale annexation, and they have not been published. Why is the newspaper not allowing our voice to be heard?
You seem to have decided the annexation attempt is a land and tax grab from Midvale and townships are the answer to the county's problems. Please reconsider. The Holladay Township would take away our community council, would have a planning and zoning board that would probably not be from our area and has no real power anyway. We would still be taxed and controlled by the county. The county is even trying to get a franchise tax, which makes them every bit as expensive to live in as a city.In fact, living in the county has become more expensive than living in a city both in the amount of taxes we pay and in the number of freedoms we lose. We want to become part of Midvale as a protection from the ravages of the county.
We are like the people of Moses crying, "Let my people go." We are like the Pilgrims crying, "No taxation without representation." We want to cede from Salt Lake County. We the people of Union want to be annexed into Midvale.
Citizens of Salt Lake County, don't weld yourselves into townships that have no more power than to keep annexation at bay. Let's divide into wall-to-wall cities, the cities we each wish to join or form, and take back the power to determine what our neighborhoods will look like. Don't kid yourselves into thinking the county will allow you to have a voice in planning and zoning your township. When it is economically advantageous to the county to build a pub/brewery in your neighborhood, it will go in.
The county commissioners can do anything they want, anywhere they want and you cannot do anything about it. If it is illegal, and when our county attorney calls them on it, they suspend him. We are at County Commission's mercy. Please, "Let our people go."
Alice Neff
Midvale