MISSION STATEMENT

Consolidate environmentally aware citizens through the electoral process; inform and register voters; identify and elect candidates for public office who will implement and enforce the foregoing purposes.

Environment:

Physical: - Air, water, light, biological and botanical.

Economic: - Taxes and other economic situations that relate to unwise use of resources (urban sprawl, subsidizing developers and other tax-supported growth)

Aesthetic: - To preserve land, buildings and other physical structures that contribute to general satisfaction and our well being in their preservation.

Economic Position Statement

Business: - We are in favor of businesses thriving and growing.

Governments' Role: 

• We favor governing bodies that ensure taxpayer freedom from subsidizing businesses.
• Responsible governing bodies must provide corroborative evidence that their decisions benefit taxpayers.
• Cost benefit analysis must be an integral part of making land use decisions to protect the Character of our communities and to control property taxes.

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Revised: March 01, 2002.