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P.C.D.A. PASSES ON LUDICROUS PARK/JOB PROPOSAL
You Going To Donate Your House And Land Too?
Halburn has once again brought up his most ludicrous idea yet in his latest scheme to profit from the Walmart property .
The PCDA should GIVE AWAY property.
The property in question is the 6.36 acre site up the hill above the Hurricane Marketplace.
PutnamLIES.com first wrote of this inane proposal in April.
There's only an acre and a half of usable land on the property, barely enough to put in a real football field, much less parking for the people that would use it.
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Plus, donating the land to the county takes it off the tax rolls forever. Causing the taxpayers of Putnam County to pay twice.
The PCDA's mission is to attract businesses and help develop properties, not give away land bought with public money.
Halburn would be calling for the heads of any other government officials that would try to do something like this with any other property.
But, since it's his idea and, in his mind, he stands to profit from this plan, he brings it up.
Halburn won't consider the idea of giving away HIS land or even selling it at a reasonable price but then he turns around and demands that Scott Edwards give away his land.
Once again, Halburn's vendetta against Mayor Edwards has blinded him to the fact that Edwards is but one member of a 21 person board. How is Edwards responsible for this?
Our solution is for the county to seize his second wife's land under eminent domain.
Using the county's own tax estimate, the house is worth $89,100. That's the fair market value. The county pays her the full amount the land is assessed for.
Is seizing the land for the greater good of the community? You bet your ass it is if it gets him out of town. Consider it urban renewal of a blighted property.
It's a win-win for everyone.
In addition to his lack of contact with reality, it's obvious that Halburn has no grasp of how business works.
Non profit businesses CAN make a profit on anything they do. Whether it's selling widgets or a piece of land. They just can't show a profit at the end of the year.
Halburn's lack of understanding of this simple fact just shows his ignorance.
His grasp of construction matters is equally lacking. The top of that hill isn't fill, it's the top of a hill that was bulldozed away. The flat area was made there.
But, many of West Virginia's businesses are built on fill. The Dunbar Plaza shopping center in Dunbar is built on a landfill.
People aren't building or opening businesses because the land is isolated or "fill" land.
People aren't building or opening businesses because of the economy, stupid.
It's the worst it's been for the last 30 years.
The board member that promises to bring this idea up in the next meeting is doing so simply to get Halburn to stop calling him every 5 minutes and whining about it. There will be no serious discussion of a land transfer.The denial to bring up this hare brained scheme is a credit to the responsible leadership of the PCDA. The taxpayers of Putnam County deserve no less.
Excellent report! There simply isn't enough usable land up there to build soccer field(s) plus the parking that is associated with them (he's never been to Greif Bros. complex on a Saturday, or Trace Fork, or Columbia Gas fields...). This was merely a ploy to blackmail Edwards by using his offer of home purchase against him. Maybe Kaufmann will hear the case?
ReplyDeleteGreat reporting! This is where I come for my Putnam County news!! Thank you so much for your service to the community!
ReplyDeleteBallburn has no idea in the world. Just think about the 200 cars a day going by his wife's house and up the hill to the soccer field. Now, what do you think will happen to all the balls that roll down the hill to his yard.....can't you just picture him standing out there every evening saying those are his balls and taking them away from the kids....typical.
ReplyDeleteYou mean Halburn don't you?
ReplyDeleteThe traffic and noise would drive him further nuts.
The only way he's going to have any balls is to steal them from kids.
I don't understand this individual at all. Excellent article stating everything I have been thinking since I saw this "idea". On an off topic I stumbled across this and it made me think of a certain someone.
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I can never get over how much he thinks the place is worth..
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