[DeTomaso] bummer, No Pantera Content

[Larry - Ohio Time Corp]

Hi Paul,


When the developer behind my property leveled off the 45 AC of land they
blocked off the two small creeks coming off my land into there property. The
developer did nothing about it and stopped talking to me.

The city did nothing (likes the property taxes of the new development) and
gave me a hard time over it. 

I found out that the US Army Core of Engineers have control of ALL waterways
in the US. No matter how small. The EPA is the enforcing arm for them. I
filed a Freedom of Information form to get a copy of there water management
plan. It showed nothing of the creeks or the wet lands. I filed with the
Army Core of Engineers and the developer fixed the creeks, restored the wet
lands (at a cost of 3 or 4 building lots) to my satisfaction.

They then sued me to death for hindering the development and costing them
money. After dragging me to court many times and running my legal fees way,
way, way up they dropped the case. My attorney said see we one!  No I still
lost, everyone else won.

Larry (caution of deep pockets) - Cleveland



-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
Behalf Of P. Rimov
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 11:16 AM
To: detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: [DeTomaso] bummer, No Pantera Content

Drove by the property today. Still in shock. The owners of the 3-4 acre
behinds us brought in thousands of yard of rock and fill, bull dozed all the
trees down and made a full off road motorcycle race course littered with
twenty foot high jumps through out, including right along the back property
line, corner burms and other various obstacles and back filled areas of the
creek to go back and forth between their house on the hill and the course.
As I watched in dismay as the caterpillars worked I  took a couple of
pictures and was immediately harassed by the motorcycle riders present about
taking pictures and quickly left. I called our builder and our real-estate
person and sent a complaint to the city as well as the subdivision owner via
Email . Both our builder and real-estate person said they would make some
calls to find out the legality of the land use today but I fear the reality
is the damage is done and we are going to have to abandon our hopes to build
now. I can not see building a half million dollar home right next to and
down hill from a motorcycle track of this scale. This is just unbelievable.

I know the city will not be particularly happy about the decimation of the
land or the errosion, fire and noise hazzard the course will pressent  or if
they will be able to stop further development or force the owner to remove
the course.  But I wonder if there is any thing more I can really do, retain
a lawyer? I am really out of my element on this one


Devastated in Medford

Paul 
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