Posted on 12/16/2004 8:25:10 AM PST by Tucker822
We have quite a little eminent domain saga going on in my home state of Georgia. Hall County lies north of Atlanta at the base of North Georgia foothills. In Hall County you will find $10 million homes on the shores of Lake Lanier, one of the busiest resort lakes in the nation.
Our story involves Eleanor Brazell. Eleanor is a widow. She owns 323 acres in Hall County. She has a contract to sell 311 of those acres to a developer who has plans for a "Sun City" type retirement community. Eleanor will keep the 12 acres on which she lives in a house built by her now-dead husband.
Our story also involves a Hall County Commissioner named Deborah Lynn. Commissioner Lynn wants Eleanor Brazell's property, all 323 acres of it. Lynn wants the property for a community center, a park and various other little goodies. It's interesting that Lynn says that the county needs the property for a park. A county-appointed citizen's park board says that they don't want that property for a park.
Well .. right now the Hall County commission is fighting like hell to get the condemnation of Brazell's property as fast as possible. They're in a hurry because two of the commissioners who are in favor of the seizure will be leaving office at the end of the month.
(Excerpt) Read more at boortz.com ...
This is an absolute outrage!!!
I'm guessing Ms Lynn has a backer somewhere who wants that retirement village on HIS piece of land.
That oughtta bring you some grief ;^)
FGS
AKA - politicians
It is, sadly, legal for the government to "condemn" the property - that is the bad news. The good news is that since there is an arms length commercial transaction in the mix, the value of the property is known to both seller and buyer. The municipality would have to pay the seller the amount of money the buyer is willing and contracted to pay to the seller and then negotiate the value to the buyer (less the amount paid to the seller). Sounds like an expensive park...it could be just another scam by a political whore to take something that does not belong to the whore - maybe, too, it could be more cynical than that - maybe Lynn wants a piece of the deal or the deal to be spiffed over to a political donor...
As an aside, the price of houses on Lake Lanier tops out around $2.0 million and averages around $350,000 (source: FMLS)
This is the type of story the media should be covering. Thank God for talk radio. The MSM doesn't get it.
If they filled their proper function as a public watchdog, instead as an arm of the DNC both them and us would be better off.
i agree this is politicians showing how they prostitute their legal powers for their own gain . Very very appaling I think all those who try to condemn should be charged with abuse of power. I think they will condemn it say they will try to sell to the park commision and after that fails they expect to auction it to themseleves and profit. Thats what it is a scheme to rob someone using legal means...
I agree. The MSM media just wants to show burning buildings, parrot what John McCain has said and foucus on whoever is bleeding in Iraq.
FOX news, for example, has been sickening in it's neverending coverage of the Scott Peterson trial. Which is a sad story but not worth the incredible airtime they have given it.
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