Outside Agenda Guides Forsyth Planning

Last week, in my article entitled, “County Government Represents You, No one Else,” I wrote that the enemies against whom President Trump has been battling since taking office have a presence right here in Forsyth County.  I cited an agenda pushed here, and for that matter in every county in Georgia and every state in America.  I revealed that the agenda to which I referred is one laced among a host of federal and state regulations.  I left you with a reminder that, regardless of any agendas foisted upon those holding elected office in our county government, our Constitution requires Forsyth officials to prioritize the interests of the citizens who elect them first, before considering lesser interests of private developers, or agendas imposed by regional commissions or the State of Georgia.

This week I promised to reveal the agenda to which I referred last week, and who is behind it.  To do that I need to take you back to June of 1976, when convened the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, in Vancouver, BC.  The product of that conference was a document entitled the “Vancouver Action Plan.”  In that plan, its authors concluded, “Public control of land use is indispensable to the achievement of the long-term objectives of human settlement policies and strategies.”  The attendees resolved that public control of land requires, “suitable instruments for assessing the value of land and transferring [ownership] to the community.”  In other words, the purpose of that conference was to initiate a strategy for affecting the transfer of land away from private owners, meaning you and me, and to “the community,” meaning the government.  Sound farfetched?  Keep reading.

“Public control of land use is indispensable to the achievement of the long-term objectives of human settlement policies and strategies...[and requires] suitable instruments for assessing the value of land and transferring [ownership] to the community.”-UN Vancouver Action Plan

The next landmark event was held in June in 1992.  That was the Rio Earth Summit.  Chapter 7 of the summit report is entitled, “Promoting Sustainable Human Settlement Development.”  Sub-Section C of that chapter presents the topic, “Promoting sustainable land-use planning and management,” the stated objective being, “the encouragement of communally and collectively owned and managed land.”  In other words, during the sixteen years following the Vancouver Conference, the UN fine-tuned its strategy designed ultimately to abolish the private ownership of land.  In their 1992 finding, the authors used a phrase to describe the ideological taking of private lands and transferring them to the government.  That term was, and remains, “Sustainable Development,” widely known as, “Agenda 21.” 

Later that year, Rio attendee President GHW Bush signed a document entitled, “UN Sustainable Development Agenda 21,” in which, along with 178 other nations, America’s president pledged the US to adopt the UN’s Agenda 21 goals in federal policy-making.

The next year, in June of 1993, President Clinton issued Executive Order 12852, establishing the President’s Council on Sustainable Development.  The council members included cabinet secretaries and bureau chiefs from Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Energy, EPA, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, the SBA, State, and Transportation.  Over the next six years, Clinton’s council successfully reshaped the body of US federal regulations in each of those agencies, to incorporate Sustainable Development ideological requirements.  Soon, Sustainable Development, Agenda 21 ideology became the foundation for coursework accreditation for every federally-funded urban planning institute in America, and still is.  Forsyth County’s professional planners hold those accreditations. 

In 1989, our General Assembly enacted the Georgia Planning Act, giving each of 12 regional commissions the responsibility of coordinating the comprehensive plans of local jurisdictions, such as Forsyth County, throughout the state.  Those commissions report directly to the Georgia Department of Community Affairs.

Each year, the Georgia Department of Community Affairs, and Georgia’s regional commissions receive federal dollars through Community Development Block Grants.  The strings attached to those grants require Georgia planning activities they oversee to adhere to Agenda 21, Sustainable Development ideological best practices, which continue to permeate US federal regulations. 

Forsyth County’s Department of Planning and Community Development works under the supervision of the Georgia Mountain Regional Commission (GMRC).  Now if you look on page 45 of GMRC’s 2017-2022 Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) & Regional Plan, you will discover that the GMRC’s only goal with respect to housing is to, “Facilitate the availability and accessibility of affordable housing and facilitate coordination of housing development with planning for infrastructure and overall community development for long-term sustainability, in every community in the region.”

UN Goals Restrict Major Corridors Away From Human Use

So there you go.  The Forsyth County Comprehensive Plan must be approved by a parent commission whose sole purpose is to enforce Sustainable Development best practices, which require “affordable housing…in every community in the region.”  Now in last week’s article, I told you that Forsyth County’s planning procedures are governed by an enemy agenda written into the US Federal Regulations.  Well, this is it, United Nations Agenda 21, Sustainable Development.  The ultimate goal of Agenda 21 is to compress households as tightly as possible, eventually achieving a zero-carbon footprint, creating affordable housing and preserving the outlying lands, which according to these plans will eventually be transferred to the government.

“Facilitate the availability and accessibility of affordable housing and facilitate coordination of housing development with planning for infrastructure and overall community development for long-term sustainability, in every community in the region.”-Housing Goal of Ga. Mountain Regional Commission

What I describe here is globalism on the local level, a generational, socialistic plan to destroy God-given, constitutional rights to land ownership.  The same globalist enemies President Trump battles on a national and world scale have a presence right here in Forsyth County.  Forsyth County planning operations should not be guided by a UN-based set of ideological purposes.  Forsyth County planning policies should be guided by the will of the citizens of Forsyth, while protecting rights of all property owners.  Forsyth citizens must insist our commissioners and legislators work together to return governmental planning operations back to the people they represent and away from the enemies of the American people.