Late in 2003, it was the Atlantic Coastal Bays Act that the commissioners enacted to "protect" the bays and limit development along the shorelines.  This year, it's the OP Sewer/Pennington Commons issue that gets passed.  Interesting juxtaposition - save the bays or pollute them? 

Just what are our leaders (if you want to call them that) trying to do?  Seems to me that every chance the Commissioners can take to hurt the residents of OP, they do it.  The Critical Bays act hurt property owners, especially those in OP, which could have been exempted from the Act without a single impact on the bays.  (Interesting that Centex benefitted under that act).  Now, the residents of OP may end up hurt by this wastewater expansion without first obtaining state approval and proper plant expansion.  (Interesting that another developer benefits again.)

Maybe I should begin developing land instead of just building a handful of homes per year! 

I don't have a problem with Pennington Commons hooking up to the current system if we're sure that the state will approve this increase and that pollutant discharge into the bays will remain the same.  Why put the cart before the horse?  Why couldn't the commissioners put the burden on the developer to pay the $1 mil if the state doesn't approve the hook up?  I don't understand it.