Annex the property, inherit the headaches
Allow me to come straight to the two main points that I want to make regarding the planned annexation of my neighborhood and others along Old Oak Ridge and Pleasant Ridge roads:
In spite of all the positive spin in the city's various communications, the cost of owning a house in my neighborhood will go up. I can't see any added value for me in the planned annexation!
Most of the neighborhoods that the city plans to annex are near the airport and the nighttime FedEx cargo hub, to be opened in 2009. What will the city do to prepare for the lawsuits that will come its way, as people are awakened in the middle of the night (3 a.m. to 6 a.m.) due to the unbearable noise of the huge (and many!) cargo planes landing and departing near their homes? Please don't plan on pushing off this huge future liability onto the Airport Authority, as the county commissioners did during the discussion of the creation of the hub.
The city won't be able to have its cake and eat it! Its new "city dwellers" will hold it liable.
Michael H. Hoppe
Greensboro
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Look, we all know you live where you do because you like the convenience of living in the city without paying for it. Well you’ve had that for longer than you should have now suck it up and stop your crying game. YES your costs are going up. If you don’t want to pay move further out (away from the convenience that you want for free). A lawsuit against the city over FedEx is laughable. You’d be out of gas before you even started.
Posted on November 24, 2007 2:12 PM
You'll have to ask permission of the city before you can bring suit.
Posted on November 24, 2007 7:32 PM