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Author    Post   Dave Starr F L I N T O I D With all the hoo-ha about shrinking Flint, I've got questions. When will officials reveal details of their plan? Will the public have any input? Where will the money come from? It's been stated that the abandoned areas would not have police or fire services. What will prevent them from becoming drug & thug infested? Eliminating 40% of the city will reduce the tax base. How will the revenues be made up? If, as has been stated, no one will be forced to move, and abandoned areas will have no city services, will the people that stay have to pay taxes to a city that they receive no services from? I've seen comments that people in areas where those moving will be relocated don't want "those people" in their neighborhoods. How will this will be dealt with? I've also heard that people will be relocated into land bank owned houses. Is this true? What if someone doesn't want a land bank owned house? Or, is this some sweetheart deal for the land bank & those connected to it? If abandoned areas remain within the city limits, how can the city refuse to provide services to those areas? If the city limits are moved, what if the surrounding government entities don't want to absorb them? _________________ I used to care, but I take a pill for that now. Pushing buttons sure can be fun. When a lion wants to go somewhere, he doesn’t worry about how many hyenas are in the way. Paddle faster, I hear banjos. Thu Jun 18, 2009 8:25 am  twotap F L I N T O I D What a friggin mess. _________________ "If you like your current healthcare you can keep it, Period"!! Barack Hussein Obama--- multiple times. Thu Jun 18, 2009 8:32 am  Dave Starr F L I N T O I D I've also heard that it's all a plan for certain connected individuals to buy up the property for pennies. Then, developers connected to those individuals will get grants to build new housing, ala "Bunchaweewee Hills". Want me to move? 1. Pay off my mortgage. 2. I pick the new house, you pay for it. 3. New house must have: a. Photography darkroom at least as large as my present one. b. 3500 gallon Koi pond with filtration to my specs in back yard. c. Minimum 2 car garage size workshop. d. All plants in my flower gardens, mainly Roses and Hostas, must be moved to the new house by professional gardeners. _________________ I used to care, but I take a pill for that now. Pushing buttons sure can be fun. When a lion wants to go somewhere, he doesn’t worry about how many hyenas are in the way. Paddle faster, I hear banjos. Thu Jun 18, 2009 8:48 am  twotap F L I N T O I D Why do I smell Obama in this whole deal?? _________________ "If you like your current healthcare you can keep it, Period"!! Barack Hussein Obama--- multiple times. Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:42 am  back again F L I N T O I D ha ha ha you smell obama for breakfast!! _________________ even a small act of goodness may be a tiny raft of salvation across the treacherous gulf of sin, but one who drinks the wine of selfishness, and dances on the little boat of meaness, sinks in the ocean of ignorance. P.Y. Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:47 pm    Display posts from previous:   All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First

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