Incorporation foes are FAROUT

Falcon incorporation opponents are mobilizing.

Falcon Area Residents Operating Under Truth, or FAROUT, is urging locals to vote against forming a town with an estimated population of 2,500 to 3,200.

The election is May 29.

Incorporation advocates say the town would be funded by a 1.6 percent sales tax. The area has seen many retail chains spring up, including Wal-Mart.

But opponents say the sales tax would affect many more people than just the town residents.

These people, though they would pay the tax, wouldn’t be able to vote on it because they live outside the town’s proposed boundaries, said Jeffrey Harrell, who set up the Web site www.nofalconco.org.

“If we're going to help pay for it and contribute, then somewhere along the line we should have some sort of sayso in what's going on,” Harrell said.

The proposed town boundaries, encompassing an estimated 11 square miles, don’t include some of Falcon’s biggest housing developments, including Woodmen Hills and Meridian Ranch.

Harrell lives in the Falcon Hills development west of Meridian Road — another wouldbe suburb. So far, many incorporation opponents also live outside the boundaries.

Incorporation opponents say they’re concerned the people running the election won’t run it fairly.

"Everybody that is on that commission happens to be proincorporation,” Harrell said.

Opponents also say they’re upset the incorporation committee hasn’t drawn up a town budget.

“It just seems like if we're going to do this, why aren't we doing it right?” Harrell said.

Falcon Incorporation Committee chair Tom Cline said earlier that the budget would be the job of future town officials.

On Sunday Cline said he didn’t have time until today to comment on the opposition group.

Incorporation advocates say forming a town is the best way to control growth.

Their Web site is www.falconco.org.

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