Comments on: Who’s the Bad Guy? http://www.saghampton.com/2006/06/whos-the-bad-guy/ Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:20:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Sag Hampton http://www.saghampton.com/2006/06/whos-the-bad-guy/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Sag Hampton Sun, 25 Jun 2006 03:30:02 +0000 http://www.saghampton.com/2006/06/07/whos-the-bad-guy/#comment-10 <strong>I'm Ambivalent...Again</strong> Generally, I consider myself a person with strong opinions, strongly held. Yet recently I found myself expressing my ambivalence about the possible effects of a GEIS on local businesses. I thought I had got all of that wishy-washiness out of my system,... I’m Ambivalent…Again

Generally, I consider myself a person with strong opinions, strongly held. Yet recently I found myself expressing my ambivalence about the possible effects of a GEIS on local businesses. I thought I had got all of that wishy-washiness out of my system,…

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.saghampton.com/2006/06/whos-the-bad-guy/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Anonymous Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:05:50 +0000 http://www.saghampton.com/2006/06/07/whos-the-bad-guy/#comment-9 a thoughtful comment, with which i agree in large measure, but i would add some other considerations. these owners bought land zoned for highway business and i would agree with you that, absent some compelling, intervening public purpose, they should have the right to continue to use their property for the allowed purposes. but, i would add, within reasonable parameters. up to now, the commercial use of these properties were modest in scale and intensity. both owners wish to substantially increase the use, thereby enabling them to realize iin income the substantial increase in property values that has occurred in the area in recent years . so the question becomes: without selling the land, do the owners have a "right" to a 10-fold increase in the economic return on the land because the value of the land has increased 10-fold. (10 is only a convenient number for illustration. i have no idea of the actual numbers involved.) the additional use of the land that will generate the income they want has all kinds of consequences that impinge on the "rights" of the community, which i don't have to repeat. so, i would look to the geis as a mechanism for measuring, weighing and balancing the equities in the context of existing town planning policies. a thoughtful comment, with which i agree in large measure, but i would add some other considerations. these owners bought land zoned for highway business and i would agree with you that, absent some compelling, intervening public purpose, they should have the right to continue to use their property for the allowed purposes. but, i would add, within reasonable parameters.
up to now, the commercial use of these properties were modest in scale and intensity. both owners wish to substantially increase the use, thereby enabling them to realize iin income the substantial increase in property values that has occurred in the area in recent years .
so the question becomes: without selling the land, do the owners have a “right” to a 10-fold increase in the economic return on the land because the value of the land has increased 10-fold. (10 is only a convenient number for illustration. i have no idea of the actual numbers involved.)
the additional use of the land that will generate the income they want has all kinds of consequences that impinge on the “rights” of the community, which i don’t have to repeat.
so, i would look to the geis as a mechanism for measuring, weighing and balancing the equities in the context of existing town planning policies.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.saghampton.com/2006/06/whos-the-bad-guy/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Anonymous Sat, 10 Jun 2006 16:45:29 +0000 http://www.saghampton.com/2006/06/07/whos-the-bad-guy/#comment-8 This is pretty well thought out. I like the way you take all different viewpoints into consideration. This is pretty well thought out. I like the way you take all different viewpoints into consideration.

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