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Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Historic District Commission Is Sinking


Mike Dunn made it very clear during the Work Session yesterday that this group is barely floating.

Shanie Shields said, people just can't afford to do things the way this group wants them done. If a Nurse wants to buy one of these homes for a reasonable price, let's say $100,000.00 and she wants to fix it up, she can't afford to do everything the way this group wants them done. You want these kind of door knobs, these kind of fixtures, they just can't afford to buy one of these houses and fix it up and these are the most affordable homes in Town.

Mike Dunn then said, how many of these properties do you know of that have been able to receive grants? Randy Taylor didn't know of one. Debbie Campbell said she knew of about 5 people that were able to do so but the question was directed at this group and they were clueless.

Mike then stated that they were sinking fast, you're not sunk yet but if this group can't make this a positive experience and a good thing for the community they're going to shut down the project, (Historic Commission) and drop it all together.

The Mayor was like a little child, walking into the room passing out little notes to Randy and others and then walking out of the room. Randy was dressed in shorts like it was 100 degrees outside, while everyone else was in suits and showing their respect towards confronting the Council. Remarks were made about his attire but he simply didn't care. He had his little Thank You note from the Mayor and that's all that counted. He'll get whatever he wants, whenever he wants it, he's a FOB. I'm not knocking you Randy, I'd just never want to be you.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Agreed
I'd rather have a person owning the home and keeping it respectable than many of the alternatives we fight about today!

sparkly1 said...

I recently noticed an aluminum building at the west end of the big parking lot behind High Street. It really looked out of place. I wonder who the owner is???

sparkly1 said...

I'm not sure but I pretty sure there was an Alessi sign on the front.

sparkly1 said...

nosweat, I went to mapquest and it appears the the building I am talking about is 116 West Chestnut Street. According to the tax records it is Owned by Mr. Ron Alessi. I lived at 500 Park Avenue for 10 years. I feel it is important to preserve the historical feel of the area on the exterior in a practical/reasonable fashion. This building aluminum building doesn't even make an attempt. Rules and regulartions need to be applied to all citizens equally.