Editor, Gazette-Journal:
On Monday, July 1, the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, executed a burial of Chevron deference, which administrative agencies like the Gloucester County Planning Commission and Zoning use to trespass people’s rights to liberty and property. These agencies misapply stare decisis (precedent, or “the way we’ve always done it”) to implement Chevron deference as if it were law.
According to agencies’ interpretation of their own ambiguous rules and regulations to divest people’s rights to life and liberty, they imagine a transformed Gloucester from a thriving rural Beehive community for a capital G (Green New Deal) and the blue streak symbolizing the river they sold Gloucester down. This is Chevron deference tyranny against, or without consenting, the will of the people.
Twelve “houses on 1 acre of land” from a former 200-acre farm + 2,400 single occupant “houses,” aka apartments, with a modest estimated average of 2 occupants = 4,800 residents. Four more 200-acre f...