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Save the big Yellow House
May 19, 2009 · 1 Comment
Categories: Athens · Ohio · brent hayes · corporation · destruction · environmental
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brother // May 21, 2009 at 1:12 am |
Here’s the snarky response I got when I emailed the commissioners.
Thank you for your comments. I’m not sure where the idea of keeping this road open has moved to destroying residences. I am not sure how we will vote when we get to acting on the request by the Alost’s because I haven’t made up my mind yet. It seems that the Alost’s are making a leap beyond keeping to the road open to improving it, widening it, taking away property and wrecking their life.
The road was there when they bought their house. The road was there when they had hunters walking in to hunt the property adjacent to theirs and now if we don’t grant their petition after they failed to make a real esatate deal with Mr. Hayes we are destroying their life. Something doesn’t add up.
Clearly, if there is to be road improvements done that is a conversation for another time.
The BOC asked if the Alost’s would swap the existing right of way for other right of way on their property that would move the location away from the house and they refused. Moving it to the other side of the tracks helps the Alost family but raises other issues in the process.
This is not an easy issue to decide when you have competing interests. The BOC is involved in a lawsuit defending two road closures we made a couple of years ago.