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To: Ilaine who wrote (39685)	10/15/1999 12:04:00 PM
From: DScottD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Talk about stirring up a hornet's nest. Or, power to the people. East of town here there is an industrial park that, because of the stunning foresight of the planners, ended up outside the boundaries of the local school district so the tax revenues go to the schools in the next town over. So, in order to right this perceived wrong to the Springfield schools, our city poohbahs, in conjunction with the school board and the local planning commission, decide we need a new industrial park. No thought given to whether there is a demand for this sort of facility. But that's not the story. The story is, this committee or whatever it is called, publicly announces that they intend to build the industrial park on a 350 acre tract just east of town which is currently operated as a family dairy farm. It has been in the same family since 1905 and three generations of this family currently live on the property and work on the farm. Needless to say, the family wasn't exactly trying to sell the property, so this committee announces it is going to condemn the property and take it under the government's eminent domain power. Talk about an uproar. This story hit the media on Wednesday. The phones at City Hall are ringing off the hook and the newspaper gets something like 300 faxes/emails/letters on the subject in one day, all but three of which vehemently oppose the planned taking. So a super secret City Council emergency executive session has been scheduled for today, presumably to allow the idiots to extricate themselves from this embarrassment before recall petitions can be circulated and filed. Oh. I forgot to mention that the city already owns nearby property that is suitable for this use, but for some reason they wanted to reserve that parcel for some other purpose. Probably so our local city-owned utility can build a power plant on the cheap or something.