So disincorporate. Problem solved.
My Yahoo pointed me to the article and I read it just before your posting. The article makes it seem like “poor little HMB had a problem with a Beachwood lawsuit.” Read the lengthy reader comment on the history of Beachwood — the typical arrogant city behavior in the 90’s will turn your stomach.
The city granted a developer rights to build a subdivision on the 24 acre Beachwood parcel just north of town. They made him pay $1.5 million to add sewers and widen Hwy 1. Then they did an about face and decided “no more growth” by banning any new sewer connections. The developer’s property value sank tens of millions dollars and he lost the value of the improvements he made as well. The city seemingly cherry-picked environmental rules to claim that there were “wetlands” so the property couldn’t be improved. There were arguments that the city actually created the wetlands to win their case. A series of lawsuits ultimately led to an out of court settlement against the city.
The city brought all this on by itself.
Dolder [City Manager] ticks off the drawbacks of disincorporation: a county-controlled police department; sporadic road maintenance; no City Council to whom to complain; and no recreation department to offer yoga classes or soccer workshops.I'm weeping for these poor folks.
Greenies will lie, cheat, steal and disembowel to get their agenda across. In Tampa a number of years ago, the city set up a rebate program to reimburse everyone who put in new low-flush toilets for the cost of changing out the new units. My Dad called the city first to verify that the program would pay him and was told yes. Turns out they funded this multi-million dollar rebate program with something less than $100,000. It was out of money in two weeks and was already out of money at the time Dad called. They didn’t even make an effort to re-fund the program but kept advertising it anyway. My Dad submitted the paperwork and was told he’d be put on the list in case the program was funded again. Of course he never got paid.
I’ve since known people who were duped into insulating or buying solar-what-have-you’s. One guy who finally got reimbursed for his $40,000 investment in solar panels six months late by “stimulus” money. He was just damned lucky. When he told me about it, he said, in sarcasm, “Oh, by the way, thank you for paying for my solar panels.”
I once interviewed the president of Arvida, formerly St. Joe’s Paper products. He had a huge map of Tallahassee on his wall and he pointed out the street improvements 20 miles away from his Southwood development that he’d had to fund; along with a host of unrelated greenie projects. All of this to get his building permits and plans approved. He called it extortion. I have to agree. Politicians who do this and the people who elect them deserve whatever they get.
The threat is is the County takes over. The thug greenies would like nothing better. My bet is they'll find a way to take their water. It's for the fishies you know...
Kinda fitting, isn't it?
So what will happen to the Ritz Carlton at Half Moon Bay?
As the money grabbing gets tighter, the shills for higher taxes get shriller.
This is what happens when liberal run cities.
Maybe the person that bought the winning $113 million lottery ticket there yesterday will bail the city out!
Not once.
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Those illegal land grabs can be expensive.