Prop. 1 doesn’t make sense

Howdy neighbor. How would you appreciate it if I decided to build an all-night strip club next to your house?

How about a late night trap and skeet range?

How about a race track around your neighborhood?

How about an eight-plex movie theater?

How about a coal-bed methane well that sucks your drinking water well dry?

It is my property, so mind your own business. The Mat-Su Borough isn't going to be able to stop me after Prop. 1 passes.

Most people in the Mat-Su Borough, myself included, don't care what their neighbors do with their property — that is, until it negatively impacts our quality of lives. The last I noticed, the Mat-Su Borough hasn't made me plant daisies in my front yard or paint my house pink. So why do we need Prop. 1? I don't want the people pushing Prop. 1 for neighbors. They are trying to extort my property taxes if they are not allowed to destroy some hapless resident’s quality of life by circumventing local laws.

The local laws on the books are to protect the little guy like me, not the unscrupulous bad neighbor developers. Why should we have to pay for someone to not locate a used car graveyard or gravel pit next door?

Scott Haan

Hatcher Pass