My City is Insane

[sampson]

Seems appropriate:

I wish i could unsee this... wow

[Martinjmpr]

Can someone translate that into English and TL;DR it for those of us adhd folk raised on Ritalin?

It's a silly way to try and prevent oil or gas exploration and extraction. And it's stupid because I'll bet most of the county sits on split estate lands (that is, the surface estate belongs to one owner and the mineral rights belong to another.) If someone who owns the mineral rights attempts to exercise those rights and the city stops them, it would be called a "regulatory taking" and the city - which is to say the taxpayers - will be liable to pay the fair market value of the mineral rights taken which could run into the millions pretty easily.

BTW wasn't Lafayette originally built as a coal mining town? Or am I thinking of Louisville?

[buffalobo]

Nuke it from space, it's the only way.

[buffalobo]

Seriously, you folks that live there need to run those councilors out on a rail.

[cstone]

The city isn't officially insane until they pass it into law. Then they are certifiably insane. Right now they are just Questioning as in LGBTQ.

[WETWRKS]

It is probably the same group that stopped the sale of our church for about 8 years because they didn't want any changes made to the property.

[DenverGP]

BTW wasn't Lafayette originally built as a coal mining town?

From wikipedia:

On January 6, 1890,[2] the town of Lafayette was incorporated. Lafayette quickly became a part of the coal-mining boom that all of eastern Boulder and southwestern Weld counties were experiencing, with the Cannon and Simpson mines being the largest and most productive.

[DireWolf]

Nuke it from space, it's the only way.

Nah, space-based anti-personnel lasers are the way to go.....Gotta think of the environment, and it might even help minimize the carbon footprint

[WETWRKS]

BTW wasn't Lafayette originally built as a coal mining town? Or am I thinking of Louisville?

Louisville/Lafayette was the wet town in Boulder County during prohibition. There were about 13 speakeasies in the area. The coal miners linked them all via tunnels. When one location would get raided they would slip thru the tunnels and start the party at the next place. The tunnels still exist to some extent.

[rondog]

Reckon I'd better stay away from Lafayette. There's been known to be occasional air pollution in my presence...... Don't want no damned screeching hippies chasing me around.