R3 Steering Committee
Ralph Brauer, Planning Commission
Joe McDilda, Environmental Policy Board
Sarah Strommen, Ramsey City Council
Will Thompsen, Town Center Task Force
Patrick Trudgeon, City of Ramsey
But the website wants us to register, and then we can say the "five things" we like about Ramsey.
Huh?
We are going to be forced by Metropolitan Council to a density quota, and a handful of things will be the subject of "historical preservation?"
Is that our "goal" for the 2008 comprehensive plan?
What about: I like it not being dense, being the farmland between Anoka and Elk River and do not want the town "Lake Elmoed" by the iron fist in the velvet glove aka "Metropolitan Council." We like things as they are and do not want to change, for outsiders, under outside pressure. Met Council, don't go away mad, just go away.
How's that, for numbers 1 through 5?
I like things as they are and I like being left alone w/o your quotas!
The prelude for that rant: I went to the first Ramsey3 presentation - it was generic, and "METROPOLITAN COUNCIL" was treated as the name we do not speak. It was a bit surreal that way. The 800 pound gorilla whose name we do not speak.
What I have heard, last comp plan exercise we had, the density quota kept getting ratcheted up, either by Met. Council or its messenger, I am not sure which.
The term I heard used, "It was like arm-wrestling with a ratchet."
If it is going to be more of the same, then forget the touchy-feely sessioning, and cut to the chase.
CITY OFFICIALS: START BY GETTING IN WRITING, WHAT, IF ANY DENSITY QUOTA, XXX UNITS PER ACRE, THE CITY MUST MEET TO HAVE A PLAN ACCEPTED. WITHOUT THAT IT IS A CONTEST IN FUTILITY AND PLEASING THE WHIMS OF A SOVEREIGN BENT ON RAISING THE ANTE TIME AND AGAIN. IT IS THEN FALSE AND FRUSTRATING. GET THE DENSITY QUOTA UP FRONT AND IN WRITING.
THEN HOLD THE "HOW DO WE DO IT" SESSIONS. HORSE FIRST, THEN CART.
Back to the opening question. I did first a whois for "ramsey3.org" then, by necessity, a whois for "thinkus.net". I got a mystery in return:
Domain Name:RAMSEY3.ORGWho? Yo, who? "M Rice" Who?
Created On:07-Aug-2006 18:01:50 UTC
Last Updated On:07-Oct-2006 03:47:42 UTC
Expiration Date:07-Aug-2009 18:01:50 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:Domain People Inc. (R30-LROR)
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Registrant ID:DP-5105515
Registrant Name:m Rice
Registrant Organization:m Rice
Registrant Street1:Box 583612
Registrant Street2:NA
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Minneapolis
Registrant State/Province:MN
Registrant Postal Code:55458
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+1.6126550035
Registrant Phone Ext.:
Registrant FAX:
Registrant FAX Ext.:
Registrant Email:domainadmin@thinkus.net
Admin ID:DP-5105516
Admin Name:m Rice
Admin Organization:m Rice
Domain Name: thinkus.net
Registrar: AAAQ.COM
Whois Server: whois.aaaq.com
Referral URL: http://www.aaaq.com
Name Server: ns1.thinkus.net
Name Server: ns2.thinkus.net
Status: ACTIVE
Updated Date: 2006-10-15
Creation Date: 2004-07-30
Expiration Date: 2011-09-25
Registrant:
M Rice domaininfo@thinkus.net
Box 583612
Minneapolis, MN 55458
US
+1.612.655.0035 Fax:
Administrative Contact:
M Rice domaininfo@thinkus.net
Box 583612
Minneapolis, MN 55458
US
+1.612.655.0035 Fax:
Technical Contact:
DNS Administrator domaininfo@thinkus.net
Box 583612
Minneapolis, MN 55458
So, here is the email I sent, and I await and will publish a reply:
Date: Sun 11 Feb 2007 10:58:42 AM EST
From: eric
To: domaininfo@thinkus.net
Subject: Who are you?
M Rice
Who are you?
You are via a "whois" identified as the instigating person behind the internet entities, ramsey3.org and thinkus.net
Those sites are slow and hardly user friendly. Thinkus.net is particularly circumspect, suggesting an intentional frame of mind that way - of NOT identifying who is behind what.
Possibly you are an administerial person, taking marching orders from someone else. If so, who?
You operate out of a PO Box.
You are trying to influence/manipulate the future of the city I live in.
Come out of the shadows and identify yourself and cohorts, and your cause of interest in the future of Ramsey, please. And explain why you are not more up front in your presence and activity.
Otherwise I must presume yours is a counterproductive interest.
I shall be posting this email on the internet, publicly calling you out:
http://zaetsch.blogspot.com/
I like to know who I am dealing with, and many, many others feel that way also. Name the wizard(s) behind your curtain?
Metropolitan Council?
I shall post your reply, if any.
Thank you.
Eric Zaetsch
I do not like BS in the package. Do you?