Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Commissioners let road go through

First, we want to thank everyone for their support throughout this ordeal.
Second, we lost.
The county commissioners announced today that they will deny our petition to prevent Mr. Hayes from building a road through the property. It was heartbreaking to listen to them vote to deny the petition. The motion was made by Larry Payne and seconded by Mark Sullivan. Then three votes to deny. Now the question is when the bulldozers arrive.
If there is anything to learn from all of this, and there are many things, one is that greed is alive and well. It is amazing that one man, with the aid of public officials, would do this to a family just to make money. Another lesson is that neither the surveyor, nor the local attorney who did the "title search ," nor the previous owner who knew about and did not disclose the problem are liable. None of them are required, or expected, to discover or disclose such information.
So the township trustees will saddle the taxpayers with paying for maintenance of a road into Mr. Hayes property. We will lose a bunch of trees, a level of privacy, and a good deal of value in our house.

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