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Princeton\u2019s home-rule charter committee is moving forward on drafting a document that it hopes will be ready for the city\u2019s voters to decide this coming November.<\/p>\n

I am hearing a bit of chatter that the city\u2019s effort to craft a governing document that enables the city to govern itself might not pass voters\u2019 muster when they cast their ballots. I do hope that chatter is wrong.<\/p>\n

The basis for that chatter comes from the city\u2019s misstep in setting up the committee. Voters gave the city permission to create a charter committee this past November. It didn\u2019t have enough members. The city then disbanded the committee and formed a new one. The process delayed the municipal vote, which now is tentatively set for this fall.<\/p>\n

I am going to bank on the notion put forth by Mayor Brianna Chacon, who told me that the city\u2019s burgeoning population has brought in a fresh new set of opinions on this issue. It will need those outlooks to reverse four previous citywide rejections of previous charter proposals.<\/p>\n

The dealbreaker in those elections was the annexation. The 2017 Texas Legislature took that issue off the table by enacting a law that requires cities to obtain property owners\u2019 permission to annex their property. Thus, that argument is no longer valid.<\/p>\n

I am going to hope that Princeton is able to enact a city charter so it becomes a home-rule city instead of a general law city that is governed by rules established by state statutes.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the city\u2019s population has exploded. Princeton now is home to an estimated 20,000-plus residents. That number is growing each day. I see it happening in my neighborhood, where houses are spring up like prairie weeds.<\/p>\n

There is no end in sight.<\/p>\n

I wish the home-rule panel as it slogs its way through the process of drafting a document that will enable Princeton, Texas, to set its own rules for how it governs itself.<\/p>\n

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Princeton\u2019s home-rule charter committee is moving forward on drafting a document that it hopes will be ready for the city\u2019s voters to decide this coming November. I am hearing a bit of chatter that the city\u2019s effort to craft a governing document that enables the city to govern itself might not pass voters\u2019 muster when … Continue reading Home rule panel slogs on<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2154,9915],"class_list":["post-51083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-home-rule-charter","tag-princeton-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51084,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51083\/revisions\/51084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}