Property taxes (WAS: On Nh living and commutes..)

[Michael Costolo]

--- Derek Martin <invalid at pizzashack.org> wrote:
> > And what about the case like the barn in Bedford where the land was
> > *already* in a historical zone prior to ownership?
> 
> This is still not the same as someone buying the property.  She
> inherited it from someone who already owned it.

But, um, that was the point of the thread.  The Bedford woman wanted to tear down a
barn that was in a historical zone prior to her ownership of it.  Someone else got
their shorts in a twist over some imagined scenario of historical designations being
thrust on the unsuspecting landowner.  Not that that scenario was the issue at hand
nor has he pointed to to a case of that happening.  You sure seem awfully bothered
about an event that hasn't necessarily even happened.

> > I believe the town can decide what it takes to enact historical
> > zones.  I'm sure that gives you no solace though.
> 
> Yeah, the town can.  But that doesn't make it fair...  Which has been
> my point from the start.

Which is like crying over the potential for spilled milk.  Forget about the fact
that the Bedford woman *was* able to do with her property what she desired despite
its being in a designated hisorical zone.  A fact that flies in the face of your
argument that such a designation is not likely to/can not be changed.  That it is
obvious that such designations can be overturned, why the vehement opposition to
town self government?  If it is "unfair" for a town to make its own laws, then who
will do it more "fairly?" 

Or should I bother asking?


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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it"
-George Bernard Shaw


	
		
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