All I can tell you is that Mayberry was a made up place, and Aunt Bee is dead. Loudon County isn’t as ideality as you would like everyone to believe, it never has been.

This was the only response I got that supported unchecked, unrestricted growth. All the rest, maybe hundreds were very supportive of controlled growth.

It is incumbent on local governments to address this issue and find the balance between good growth and too much growth too fast.

Hopefully, we can take the first steps in that direction at tonight's commission workshop.

I suspect some of you might want to read the entire email, as written, I got in support of growth so I've included it below, senders name retracted.

All I can tell you is that Mayberry was a made up place, and Aunt Bee is dead. Loudon Country isn’t as ideality as you would like everyone to believe, it never has been.

I have six kids who live in Lenoir City. I have given each child a house here in Lenoir City, even though my youngest son is away in the Navy, of course you wouldn’t know about the military, despite you continually blabbering about how much you love the country I don’t believe you or any of your current family members  ever joined the military to defend the country, but I digress.

Having lived in the city and county longer than you, I am over joyed that we are moving away from being a backwater community where we have to drive to Knoxville, Maryville or Oak Ridge for many basic needs. New and diverse resident serve the tax base and job pool very well. Local development has been good for the community and has resulted in the property valve of each of my children’s houses increasing.

It seems as much as you dislike anyone from out of county you would like local jobs to be filled by new local residents. With a growing population comes addition business and industries to take advantage of the labor pool, and I mean more than just stock boy position at the local hardware.

Like so many of your view and positions in the past such as  liquor by the drink will result in a quantum leap in DUI deaths, the state lottery will throw thousands of people out in the streets when the parent gamble all the money away, you predictions about the “unchecked” development are equally as incorrect and backwards looking.

Your rants about all the Yankee in Tellico village, TVA raising the flood barriers in response to climate change and your near daily whining about how long DOT took to finish the Hwy 321 improvement, were just viewed as the humorous moaning of an out of touch, uneducated, (your vast internet education doesn’t really count) old man whose present life must be so miserable all he want to do is go back in time, and never look to the future.

I do think you were smart to take advantage one of the largest socialist programs in the country early, that being social security (your prediction associated with that may prove to be true). I wouldn’t think your venture in growing switch grass proved to be that profitable and your wife can’t work at her government job forever.   

Now if the number of new people who might choose to live in the country become such a burden for you that you can no longer tolerate it, you could, like Representee Crockett did, move to Texas.

I know you have stated in the past you will never go into a business that serves beer, but should I ever see you at Cracker Barrel I am going to buy you a beer and have the waitress bring it to your table