Posted on 05/15/2008 8:12:20 AM PDT by SmithL
I live on Magnolia ave for a couple years...right down the street from this area...
The streets where in...light poles...water lines and sewers...
Blocks and blocks of nothing but scrag grass...
It should be called “Half Moonbat Bay”...
Serves them right. Short-sighted policies cause unintended consequences.
” Half Moon Bay needs Sacramento to enact legislation that would allow this development to bypass state wetlands protection regulations.”
Protecting the wetlands that HMB created. Makes sense to me. /sarcasm
I guess “You can’t build there because we don’t want you to” was not good enough, this time.
They made their bed. Now let them lay in it.
My aunt and uncle screamed bloody murder about stopping this project for years. I hope they take it in the neck over this.
L
"Inadvertently" appears to be the issue here. This could have been settled amicably had the city not attempted to use the wetlands legislation as a "gotcha." Actions have consequences.
Hoist on their own petard, imho.
Is it time to change the definition of "wetlands" yet?
I hate dealing with small town politicians. They’re power trippin’ idiots! In the middle of an issue with some as I write.
heh me too...”let them eat pumpkins”!
That special tax would be peanuts for those rich Moonbats.
Serves them right.
I urge the legislature to vote “NO” on this ridiculous end around of our sacred wetlands protections. Once this is passed what’s next? Far better for the city of Half Moon Bay to go bankrupt. Really, they would be the second in a month. So it’s not that big a deal anymore.
Wetlands rule. Environmental rules must never be bent to accomodate mere humans.
Can't they just re-route their drain project to eliminate the "wetlands"?
Or is that illegal too?
Damn straight!!!!
I have a feeling this kind of thing is not uncommon. Have one here in NJ which is similar. Developer had a property and a lake. Town didn’t like the plan and condemned the property under emminent domain. Owner appealed the taking price and won. Town had to pay double plus interest. Doubled taxes for the town to pay for it.
Now NJ Dep says dam on the lake is defective and either must be breached or rebuilt. More taxes plus a big smelly lake bed will be the result.
They would have been much better off with the original development like in the Half Moon case.
Just visited Half Moon Bay as it happens. Know the spot in question. Not much of a place to protect.
I will be sending copies of this to our local Greennazi City and County officials.
“They made their bed. Now let them lay in it.”
Indeed, note how the city had no mercy for the landowner when it thought it had the upper hand. When the positions are reversed these municipalities will destroy you financially without batting an eye.
And under what circumstances is their exposure personal and not indemnified by the governmental organization that they represent?
With the property market as bad as it is now, I think Keenan should take the money. OTOH, if the city declares bankruptcy, he may get nothing. OTOH, if the city declares bankruptcy, he can seize the city’s assets (I think) to settle his debt.
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