Transfer of Federal Lands to the States
I am wondering how many RVers are aware of the movement to transfer federal lands to the states? Many western states are pushing this initiative. In Wyoming (my home state) nearly 25 million acres w...
Forum Discussion
highplainsdrifter wrote:
As I understand it, here is your FEDDOT question: Before we could build our house, here, we had to name our road and get an address. Then Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) had to approve. ADOT tried to have us jump through all kinds of hoops that would have cost us between 10 and 20 thousand dollars. I contacted our state representatives and the problem went away in about 3 months. What would have happened if there was a FEDDOT?
I think the answer is simple. No one is proposing that a FEDDOT should have been involved with your issue. I think you should be upset with the State of Arizona for imposing complex rules, not the federal government for what they MIGHT have done IF they had been in charge. If anything, you seem to be making a case against state control. I certainly would agree with that.
On the contrary. It is a hypothetical question, but if there was a FEDDOT I would not have stood a chance in hell of anyone even looking into the matter. If, instead of ADOT, it had been the Cochise County Department of Transportation, then I'd wager that it would have been taken care of in a couple of weeks if not days. The closer the power is to the people the more responsive they will be. The CCDOT chief could well be a neighbor. ;)
ETA: BTW, good discussion, HPD. Neither you nor I will change our minds but others who have no personal experience with BLM and FS may learn something or do some research on their own and come to their own conclusions.
LS
