Richard Baker wrote:Your friends at the lagoon are not, repeat, not owners of the beach property. Your friend has no say in the affairs of the Clifton Park Trust. His opinion with that current legal issues in the Trust is just another CNN opinion. The boathouse residents are guests of the Trust. However, the lagoons contribute to the security of the beach, and the Trustees allow them to use the beach property. If your friends are owners of a boathouse, they would know this, so I assume they are renting.
The Clifton Park Trust owns the property up to approximately eight feet of the lagoon boathouses with a few exceptions. The Trust also owns the riverfront property. However, there was an attempt by the Trustees to circumvent the Trust and sell the riverfront property, which resulted in a lawsuit that wasted Trust funds in the upper five-figures for attorneys. The cost to the opposition was less than a thousand.
The guards would not arrest you, nor do they have powers to make an arrest other than citizens. They would simply call the Lakewood Police and have you arrested for trespassing. The City Lakewood can't afford to purchase the beach; if they elected to enact eminent domain it would require them to pay fair market value for the beach property. First of all, it's too small, parking is limited, and do you have any concept of the value of the riverfront and Lake Erie sand beach property?
The COVID-19 recession will cause property values in the city to collapse, the primary industry; bars and restaurants shuttering, reduction of the city government gluteus staff's payroll, abused infrastructure repairs, years of inept a socialist management, declining payroll taxes, unemployment, etc. No, in a bedroom community like Lakewood, the mayor and councils' attention will be how to cut all the nonessential socialist services they burdened the taxpayers with, outsource the income tax department, trash pickup, and lay off city nonessential employees.
Thank you for proving my point.
You people get weird and nasty over that sliver of beach. I have written many stories of the lawsuits, and the bitter infighting with everyone involved in that sandy battle ground.
First I was standing with the guard, and the police, and the fire fighters, even the driver till he left to be checked out. The same guard I walked by on my way to my friends house. He asked my business, and I told him, though I do not believe I had to.
Heading home, I was probably going to take the steps, not the road for safety, though I walked down the road to get there. I saw the accident and took photos.
They would not call Lakewood Police and have me arrested for tresspassing because the guard was not an asshole, and neither are Lakewood Police. Just the people fighting over "the beach," would do they, and like most things they would be wrong too.
I would argue the PArk Association and Clifton Club can't afford to sell the beach far more than Lakewood's ability to borrow money at almost zero interest to purchase the beach.
So Mr. Conservative ex-Mayor of a small town, how would you balance the books. Lakewood cannot run a deficit economy. Please start another thread, I would like to keep this to how creepy people get over the condom, dead fish catcher.
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