Posted on 06/06/2002 8:41:12 PM PDT by countrydummy
Sheila Davis
PO BOX 202
Jumping Branch, WV 25969
PHONE: (304) 466-3676
FAX: (Same, picks up on 4th ring)
country357@stargate.net
Fred VanKirk, P.E.
Secretary/Highways Commissioner
West Virginia Department of Transportation
Division of Highways
1900 Kanawha Boulevard East * Build Five * Room 110
Charleston, WV 25305-0430 * (304) 558-3505
Dear Mr. VanKirk:
I am in receipt of your letter dated May 28, 2002 concerning State Project X241-125-0.00 02, New River Parkway, Raleigh and Summers County.
I must say that this letter is of grave concern to me in that along with the letter is an enclosed map, "SANDSTONE FALLS ADDITION", that denotes my property as Tract 106-18 and as such calls for the acquisition of an area 35 feet by 25 feet (875 square feet) of my property.
This is of grave concern due to the fact that I have a letter dated March 14, 2000 from the Most Honorable U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd that contained and enclosed letter from your department that reads as follows:
Ms. Sheila Davis
P.O. Box 202
Jumping Branch, WV 25969
Dear Ms. Davis:
I have received the enclosed report from officials of the West Virginia Division of Highways (WVDOH) regarding your concern about the acquisition of your property in connection with the proposed New River project. I note that your property should not be affected by the revised acquisition alternatives.
You may be assured that I am pleased to have contacted WVDOH officials in your behalf and to make this update available to you. I hope that you find this information encouraging.
With kind regards, I am
Sincerely yours,
Robert C. Byrd
As I will not re-type the entire letter from your department to that of the office of the most Honorable Senator, I will re-type the sentence of which he refers:
"Ms. Davis' property should not be affected by our revised acquisition alternatives." (I shall be including these documents with this letter for your inspection).
These documents should reflect to you my concern, especially due to the fact that this is the first time any such map showed any portion of acquisition of my property at all save the ill conceived "Preferred Alternative" introduced September 9, 1999, that was of course rejected due to public outcry!
I thoroughly can not understand the need for this encroachment on my private property over the May, 1998 DEIS (Draft Environmental Impact Statement) and the associated maps that were a part of that study and design! Assuredly, this is the first time this "map" has ever been presented to me and my family!
I suggest this is once again an ill conceived endeavor to appropriate an estimated 80% of the value of my property by obtaining my well and septic systems of which you once again sorely fail!
"Purpose and Need" was presented to the residents of New River Road and the community of Hinton to benefit all the residents thereof and not to take anymore than needed for the construction and maintenance of such, as well to provide safe and easier access to all the resources of the surrounding areas.
This new communication from you only rests to assure me that the true idea of "Purpose and Need" is the exact opposite! That it is the sole purpose to displace and disenfranchise the residents of New River Road and eventually the residents of Hinton itself!
Therefore, I am forwarding this letter to the Most Honorable Senator Byrd, the Governor of this Great State, the Most Honorable President of these United States , as well as many others!
cc: President George W. Bush
Governor Bob Wise
U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd
U.S. Congressman Nick. J. Rahall
Numerous Letters to the Editor
Numerous Private Property Advocates
Sincerely,
Sheila K. Davis
Signature
From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Arthur Dent seems to be having trouble with his lifestyle. One morning, he woke up with a hangover to discover his house being demolished. As he lay in front of the bulldozers, his friend Ford Prefect took him to the pub and revealed that he was an alien. It was Thursday. Lunchtime. "Drink up, the world's about to end!" Shortly after this, the Earth is unexpectedly demolished by a Vogon Constructor fleet to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. "Bypasses...we've got to build bypasses."
Nothing quite like heat to make a bureaucrat squirm.
Good job. Time to get conciliatory by relieving Mr. VanKirk of the pain and expense of overt acquiescence.
Offer to redraw his map for free!
FReegards,
CO
I thank you for your support, and I will do my best to live up to it!
I do doubt that VanKirk knows who Gayle Norton is, but she Should know who he is! But again I doubt it! I am fast learning that the "field has no clue and thus there is no team"!
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