Why Do We Oppose The Iola Car Show Sand Mine? Because Of Location, Location, Location!
We Do NOT Oppose The Iola Car Show. We Oppose The Proposed Sand Mine
This NoIolaSandMine.com website has been created for the home owners and residents of the Township of Scandinavia and the Village of Iola who oppose the proposed Iola Car Show sand mine. The goal of this site is to keep everyone informed about the facts of this sand mine and to keep everyone up-to-date on the latest meetings and developments.
Our mission statement is simple: We oppose the sand mine and we are asking the Iola Car Show and Faulks Bros. to withdraw this application for the 30-acre sand mine. We are asking for No Iola Sand Mine, PERIOD. We will detail this position with facts and provide all the reasons we believe that this proposed sand mine is a terrible idea for our beautiful community. We will win this argument with FACTS. We do NOT want any shovels in the ground.
Waupaca County Board of
Adjustment Hearing
Monday, October 21st at 9am.
Waupaca County Courthouse Room LL42
EVERYONE is invited to attend! This hearing will determine the validity of the Faulks Bros. Sand Mine Conditional Use Permit on the Iola Car Show Grounds.
Can’t make it to the hearing? There are other helpful ways you can participate:
Write a letter or send an email
Contribute to legal fees
Appeal Process Next Steps
The next step in the appeal process of the Iola Car Show sand mine permit has been established: It’s now onto the Waupaca County Board of Adjustment.
In a surprise announcement on Wednesday, June 19th, Outagamie County Judge Vincent Biskupic granted the Motion to Dismiss the appeal in Circuit Court to the Waupaca County Planning and Zoning Committee. The judge had scheduled a June 28th hearing between the two parties to decide where the appeal would be heard next, but he surprisingly made the decision just from the briefs submitted by both sides. He has ordered a new hearing in front of the Board of Adjustment with new testimony at a date and time to be determined.
Who Is Behind This Website?
Welcome to NoIolaSandMine.com. I am Greg Ambrosius and I will be managing this website.
I am identifying myself because I am passionate about this cause and I want you to know directly who is providing you the information and facts about the sand mine. Having an anonymous writer doesn’t give any credibility to the argument. And I will ask everyone who posts within the comments section on Facebook to provide their names so that we can all have a factual, transparent debate about this proposed sand mine.
Do You Know What The Town of Scandinavia Year 2030 Comprehensive Plan Is? It’s Time To Find Out
Does anyone know what the Town of Scandinavia Year 2030 Comprehensive Plan is?
Probably not, but it is VERY important to our discussion and I want everyone to understand it before we get much deeper into the facts. Please take the time to read this:
So in 2003, the state of Wisconsin tasked county leaders and municipal leaders around the state to come up with a 20-25 year plan that would give them direction and a plan when it came to community growth, land use decisions like this one and more. It’s basically a road map that helps the board decide a vision for the town’s future.
What Is The Substantial Evidence Of Harm? Reduced Property Values
I think we have a very good chance to prove “substantial evidence” of harm when it comes to our property values. Will the Township of Scandinavia and/or the Village of Iola allow this permit to go through if it KNOWS FOR SURE that property values will go down? Would they allow this permit to go through knowing that property values will go down by millions of dollars?
Let’s hope not. But first we have to prove that property values will go down and we are in the process of seeing how we can hire an independent assessor to do for us what was done in Packwaukee, Wisconsin earlier this year. Oh, and by the way, the Packwaukee mine was recently defeated.
“WE DO NOT OPPOSE THE IOLA CAR SHOW. We can’t say that enough. WE OPPOSE THE PROPOSED SAND MINE.”
— Greg Ambrosius, Iola resident
Contact
Feel free to contact us with any questions.
Greg Ambrosius will reply to all responses.