Willow Revivification Act

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CONGRESS OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF REDMONT
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A BILL TO

AMEND THE CONSTITUTION




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The people of the Commonwealth of Redmont, through their elected Representatives in the Congress and the force of law ordained to that Congress by the people through the constitution, do hereby enact the following provisions into law:


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PART I — PRELIMINARIES

1. Short Title and Enactment

(1) This Act may be cited as the ‘Willow Revivification Act’

(2) This Act shall be enacted immediately upon its signage.

(3) This Act has been authored by AsexualDinosaur.

(4) This Act has been co-sponsored by Representative Sky Beer, Deputy Speaker of the House RaiTheGuy07, Speaker of the House xXTheoryXx, President of the Senate Talion77, Representative NovaKerbal, Deputy President of the Senate TrueDarklander and Representative Stanley582.

(5) This Act amends the following acts:

(a) Constitution

2. Reasons and Intent

(1) Recognize Willow as a distinct entity.

(2) Private groups have already begun to take up organization, this would ensure the democratic process is controlled.

(3) I love Willow. I love Willow. I love Willow. I love Willow. I love Willow. I love Willow. I love Willow. I love Willow. I love Willow. I love Willow. I love Willow. I love Willow. I love Willow. I love Willow. I love Willow. I love Willow. I love Willow. I love Willow. I love Willow. I love Willow. I love Willow. I love Willow. I love Willow. I love Willow. I love Willow. I love Willow. I love Willow. I love Willow. I love Willow. I love Willow. I love Willow. I love Willow. I love Willow. I love Willow.

3. Amendments

(1) The Constitution Part V Section 32.1 shall be amended as follows:
(a) Town of Aventura

(b) Town of Oakridge

(c) Town of Willow

 

[Gluonmaster]

100% going to get Admin VETOed but ... I LOVE WILLOW!

 

[Anthony_Org]

I LOVE TOWNS!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Staff Team]

Owner Veto

This is a joint veto of the Willow Revivification Act and the Realer Town Rights Amendment Act.

We recognise that the concept of towns is popular, and that many players would like to see the return of more towns. Willow means something to a lot of people, and with the playerbase picking back up there's a real appetite to bring it back.

We recognise that over the past six years, towns have put in the work to build their communities. It's fair to ask what they get to do next.

Willow

Willow is a really important part of our server - it's the only place where players can get farm plots on the Reveille map.

Each time Willow has had a local government, political decisions have systemically resulted in:

a. farmland getting sold off and stops changing hands;

b. farmland plots get converted to residential or commercial plots (which subsequently sit empty); and

c. players, and in particular, new players, are unable to get hold of farmland.

Recalling several local governments repeating this cycle, we're not content that:

a. this bill has enough protections in place to stop the repetition of this scenario; and

b. that there is genuinely enough things for a local government to do in Willow with such restriction as above.

This lack of things to do leads to the next point on the topic of town rights.

Town Rights

Towns asking for more power right now is reflective of a broader existential crisis towns are having now that they have exhausted all of their available land, and with it, an obvious reason to exist beyond maintaining what's already built. The bill treats *more power* as if it were itself a purpose, but granting towns broader authority over regulation doesn't create a purpose - it just kicks the can down the road.

The town concept was to build small, local communities which would not rival the main city nor Federal Government. They were, by design, small executive bodies which had delegated executive power. They existed in this form for over 5 years until they were recently brought into the Constitution.

Staff intent is for Towns to remain as subordinate local governments to a central Federal Government. The home rule system is largely impractical for server infrastructure as most of the systems a town would need to exercise authority over are run through server-wide plugins. For example, this is why the DOS run town elections and the DCT are required to evict plots.

Way Forward

Noting that this bill changes little but the dynamic between the Federal Government and local governments, we believe that there are still opportunities for towns that don't rely on a Constitutional change.

We propose the following ways that the Congress may seek to create purpose in towns:

1. Greater involvement in the Federal Government. Growing the federal legislature and establishing senate electorates for towns and the city. This provides towns with a stake in the legislature and meaning for people to be part of them.

2. Budget. Including towns in the Federal budget to allow towns the economic means to support their community and culture.

3. Statutory Changes. Exploring statutory delegations, such as town-issued infringements for bylaw breaches (i.e. the ability to issue infringements on local laws, which rely on the player to pay... or challenge in court).

Subject to Presidential support, we are also able to revise the veto limit on town council patronage from five (5) to eight (8) in acknowledgement of player base growth. But, in exchange for the removal of the inactive Willow Advisory Council as to not oversaturate local government.

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