Sweet Willy
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- May 20, 2009
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Bullshit. What exactly do you suppose Flint or any city can use 1,000's of delapidated houses for? Crack refuges?
It matters not one bit what was spent on utilities in the development. They are costing the cities money now. The properties have been abandonned. No one has asked you or anyone else to pay for any of this. No one asked anyone to abandon property either, leaving the city to foot the bill for upkeep. If your property isn't worth while for you to pay the taxes needed to keep it up, why on earth would it be economically sound for a local government to keep it up? They have no use for your abandonned property either.
Sounds to me like Flint and Youngstown are doing what they need to do to survive. You're going on about someone else's problem, a problem no one has asked you to solve. You simply read that the Government has refered Mr. Kildee to these towns and immediately make a bunch of idiotic assumptions.
As far as being involved, I have been an engineer for 20+ years. I know all to well what goes into planning development. I also know what it cost to maintain it. If it sits around empty and abandonned for years, it's a loser, for everyone.
It matters not one bit what was spent on utilities in the development. They are costing the cities money now. The properties have been abandonned. No one has asked you or anyone else to pay for any of this. No one asked anyone to abandon property either, leaving the city to foot the bill for upkeep. If your property isn't worth while for you to pay the taxes needed to keep it up, why on earth would it be economically sound for a local government to keep it up? They have no use for your abandonned property either.
Sounds to me like Flint and Youngstown are doing what they need to do to survive. You're going on about someone else's problem, a problem no one has asked you to solve. You simply read that the Government has refered Mr. Kildee to these towns and immediately make a bunch of idiotic assumptions.
As far as being involved, I have been an engineer for 20+ years. I know all to well what goes into planning development. I also know what it cost to maintain it. If it sits around empty and abandonned for years, it's a loser, for everyone.