Eminent Domain Protests
The tireless and controversial Jim Roos, head of MEDAC (Missouri Eminent Domain Abuse Coalition), is planning to rally today in Richmond Heights:
On July 5th, 6:45 to 8:00 p.m., at 8001 Dale, ( 2 blocks East of Hanley and two blocks south of I-64) at the Richmond Heights Community Center, MEDAC (Missouri Eminent Domain Abuse Coalition) will demonstrate against eminent domain abuse and TIF waste in Hadley Township of Richmond Heights.
Last week the Richmond Heights TIF commission voted 8 to 2 against the Hadley
Township project which would use about $40 million of tax subsidy to entice most residents to sell, plus use eminent domain to force out the others residents, businesses and a church. This "plan" would demolish 12 blocks of mostly good homes and businesses in an historically black community.
We need to persuade the city council not to waste $40,000,000 of TIF (future tax
income) and not to force people to move who want to stay. Joann Bailey and a few other home owners have done a marvelous job of fighting this cause. Please come and back them plus stop the waste of future tax income.
For more info call Jim Roos, 771-3509 or Joann Bailey, 781-4771
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Posted by dunno on Wed., Jul 5, 2006 at 1:51 PMJim Roos is hardly a good posterboy for ED abuse, as McRee Town was easily blighted, and the Garden District involved residents throughout the process. Meanwhile, Hadley Heights is just the latest victim in the on-going game of too many munies all chasing the same sales tax dollars.
Instead of listening to a slumlord, RH citizens should take a lesson from Maplewood, and have a referendum. Unlike Maplewood's vote, however, this time a vote would more likely be successful. RH is no where near being as fiscally strained as their southern neighbor was pre-THF Commons, Kelo has since changed the landscape, and hopefully Callow has no political connections to this developer.
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