Talk:Sarpy County, Nebraska

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[edit] Taxes

A recent addition by an anonymous IP put in stuff about taxes and other situations. Someone who knows the county might want to look this over, but I'll try and do basic NPOV editing.-GregoryWeir 03:39, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV: Problems

Hello, I am from Gretna, Nebraska and I have marked the Problems section as non-neutral point of view. Currently, there is a legal battle between Gretna and I believe the rest of Sarpy County, and I will explain this. Sarpy County is a location in Nebraska with a quickly expanding population. Gretna's point of view is that they need to find a way to control the zoning of the areas that are expanding. A few years ago, Gretna wanted to annex a portion of State Highway 370 east of Gretna for two miles to 180th Street and US Highway 6 south of Gretna for one mile so they can have greater control for zoning the land around it. These stretches of highway extend outside of the city limits, and currently the land surrounding these stretches of highways are farmland, but are not considered to be rural farmland because Gretna is close enough to Omaha. I don't believe any town has ever successfully annexed a highway in Nebraska, and I've only heard about it being attempted one other time. As a reaction, the other cities in Sarpy County, notably Papillion, Springfield, and I believe Bellevue decided to sue Gretna for attempting to annex the portions of highways, without even making an effort to settle this matter outside of court first. This section of this article is non-neutral because it reflects a biased opinion ,and the author--whose anonymous IP registers its location as Bellevue--wanted to make Gretna look bad in the process. -68.226.61.4 07:46, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Well, it's a Wiki, so don't hesitate to edit it as you see it, and if possible, link to newspaper articles or information off of the County Governement website.--MONGO 07:49, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

When I get the chance to, I will research what I do not know about this topic and I will edit the page with what I find out, unless someone beats me to it. Since this is a landmark case that has to do with Sarpy County as a whole, I believe it is worth mentioning in this encycolopedia. -68.226.61.4 23:23, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Does anyone from any other region consider a 7% sales tax as a problem? (considering that the median household income in the area in question is over $50k US) For some reason I don't. -137.48.130.200 18:31, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

--Actually, I wrote this section of the article with the dispute between Bellevue and Papillion School Districts in mind. Gretna did not even pop into my mind until you mentioned it here. Personally, I like the idea of annexation for purposes of zoning control. I just had concerns about school districts and other governmental entities fighting over who owns what. -68.227.169.22 20:46, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

You're referring to Bellevue's One City, One District plan, similar to Omaha's infamous plan of the same name, I understand now. My apologies then, replacing NPOV tag with cleanup then as it was originally. If I ever get the chance to, I'll throw some sources in the article as well. 68.226.61.4 06:54, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

I think the very header "Problems" is NPOV in this case. I don't think a 7% sales tax is in and of itself a problem, or for that matter that its "problem-ness" is a factual matter -- it is a matter of opinion. I am going to relabel the section "Local Issues" and see what happens. Onyourside 18:16, 24 March 2006 (UTC)