re: FOR SALE: Corner of Bluebonnet and Jefferson

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Only comparing them because they are both auctions. How many times would you want the government to post notices? 5? 10? 1,000? This piece of property is just one of many that the C-P sells each year, including surplus cars, machinery, office equipment, etc. Again, if any information about this property was knowingly withheld from the public before the auction took place, then I'd be outraged and I'd pick up my pitchfork. I've seen nothing in the OP's article or any post in this thread that indicates it was a secretive process leading up to the sale. It looks to me there is a lot of faux outrage in this thread because those posters didn't bid on the property.

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I think you are making a half-arse attempt to stir the pot.

Look at the facts:
1) We have a developer, a known friend of a city-parish councilman, and a city-parish who has helped him in the past to get parish property put up for sale.
2) We have the city putting proper up for sale at the request of the same councilman.
3) We have the same developer responding to a bland, legal description, of a high profile piece of property; that he knew was coming up for sale because he asked his buddy to sell it.
4) it's obvious to me that the two of them know that the city-parish is negligent in that they probably put up pieces of properties for sale without getting an appraisal.
5) The guy scooped up the property for a song.6) The city council member who knew the guy approved the sale even though he knew the property had to be worth more than 10K.

And know I'm not mad that I didn't get to buy the property. I'm mad because the city-parish doesn't take care of business. They purchased the land to widen the roads in that area. It was kept as Green space. They likely paid more than 10K for the property and then let a politician and his buddy take it for almost nothing.

You may call it faux outrage, but I put this right up there with some of the stuff the COA, CATS, and Broome have pulled.

If you are fine with your govt. doing these kind of deals fine, but I'm not.

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As our wonderful Parish Council approves the sale for $ 10,000...which is only about 740,000 under valued

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Is this on the SW quadrant of the intersection? Sort of across Bluebonnet from Izzo's?

How appropriate is it for development? Is there limited access to Bluebonnet or Jefferson that close to the light?

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How appropriate is it for development? Is there limited access to Bluebonnet or Jefferson that close to the light?

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That's a good question, and we shall see because per the BRBR they intend to get the property rezoned

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Planning Director Frank Duke says the tract is currently zoned residential, but he fully expects someone to request it to be rezoned for development.

“The narrow depth of the parcel is going to create something of a design challenge,” Duke says. “I think it can be overcome, but you’re going to have to be creative in how you do it.”

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How appropriate is it for development? Is there limited access to Bluebonnet or Jefferson that close to the light?

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They're building a bank directly across Jefferson on a lot of similar size and shape. It would be tight, but I would think it could be done.

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And the entire city council approved the COA vote, that doesn't make it right does it?

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Red herring argument. Childish tactic.

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you look really silly backing the city on this mess

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By "backing the city" do you mean I want the city to follow all required notifications and laws to dispose of surplus property? Then, yes, I guess I'm backing the city.

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I ask again, do you know this developer personally? Or maybe you know Heck?

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I've never met or talked to either one of them. My point is if the laws for disposing of surplus property were followed, and it appears from the linked article they were, any bitching about it is just that....bitching. You've shown you love to bitch so this thread fits you.

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I made a mistake on the timeline

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I already knew Heck was off the Council.

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You're irrational.

Heck didn't run for re-election last November and the new council was sworn in the first week in January.

The linked article says the council voted to approve the auction sale "earlier this year."

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What do they mean when they say Heck "carried the deal through the process" ?

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I didn't write the article. Call the Business Report and ask them what they meant.

the land was pushed through as surplus by Heck and auctioned when he was still in office late last year. The sale was not approved by the metro council until this year when he was no longer in office.

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Lea Anne Batson

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You're irrational.

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You are trying to defend the actions of the city simply because you believe they complied with the letter of the law, when we already have a state official questioning as to whether or not they did.

I don't know what to tell you, but an attitude like yours fosters those like Broome, Gravy and the others that believe its their turn, and that as long as no law is broken then anything they do is OK.