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As you may know this group was formed about 3 years ago when Wal-Mart wished to put a store at the corner of 135 and Olive Branch. Its mission is to dog county and city officials to follow comprehensive plans that were established for this area several years ago but routinely ignored in approving development plans for housing and commercial developments. Only recently has the county begun the process of updating and creating a new comprehensive land use plan. The group also pushes for preparing the necessary infrastructure (roads, traffic controls, sanitation, etc.) BEFORE developments are approved (much like Greenwood did with the Emerson Ave. area before that commercial corridor was set in motion), and is concerned with housing value preservation, road improvements, parks, and public safety matters. For example, signal timing improvements on SR 135 came about only because of WRCU's work with INDOT. At stake now is 5-laning of 135, and E-W road improvements.
The group is not political, except as it must interact with political bodies. It did endorse, but did not provide funds, to a candidate for County Council in the 2006 elections. A sad reality of this unincorporated area we live in is that we have virtually no political power. The County Council is a tax and budget approval body and we have good representation from White River Township on this body. However, the policy body is the County Commission and of the three Commissioners, one represents an area of over 40,000 people, more than in the rest of the county represented by the other two Commissioners.
Consequently, the place where most unicorporated county tax revenue is generated, where most growth problems exist, where public safey issues are most apparent, where roads are stressed, has little effective political representation or power. WRCU is a voice that has gained the respectful attention of county officials, and in the view of the Brockton Manor HOA Board is well worth the minimal amount of money it takes to have a voice.
To get information about WRCU please go to the web site below.
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