Nevis neglecting
its obligation
I don't understand Nevis's Mayor Ray Melander's blaming the school impervious surface for the "lake" on Pleasant Street; when it is the city's legal obligation to provide the infrastructure for the public health and safety. In this, and other instances; by the installation of storm drainage; protecting individual property rights (which includes drainage rights, ensuring property values, privacy rights and more; the scope of property rights is very broad).
People in small towns have no inalienable rights because the people they elect have no knowledge of them, or the purpose and role of government, at local, state and federal level. So much for the Constitution(s) they make a solemn oath to uphold.
It ain't their fault that some of them were born dumb; but it is their fault for now overcoming their deficiency (lack of due diligence; which is cause for liability or removal).
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Ignorance of the law is no excuse; especially when quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial (police) powers are involved; it becomes a liability.
Whose impervious surface causes the flooding at Main Street and 6th Avenue every spring and after every big rain?
Why is it that a portion of the community enjoys their drainage rights; those along Paul Bunyan Drive, and only then because the water is directed into Lake Belle Taine and onto private property. When is this service going to be extended to, and enjoyed by, the rest of the community?
The farce and tragedy that is Nevis and its non-functioning Planning Commission.
Phillip J. Harris
Nevis
