quote:Originally posted by GoFish:quote:Originally posted by excelman:
I can tell from this one statement what your politics are. You believe that it is perfectely ok to take land from we the people and give it (as in for free) to private individual(s) for their profit.
There are not a lot of people more "out doorsey" than me. I love trails and public spaces and make much use of them.
However, I believe that TVA owns far too much vast stretches of prime development public land in the Shoals area. If they have their wish, we will never see any sort of development in any of those areas.
If you are talking about taking away Diebert park, I'd raise cain. Take away Rock Pile boat landing and I'd raise cain. Take away any public park that is actually used by the people and I'd raise caine. But the TVA trail isn't used by hardly anyone and a prime trail could have been built elsewhere on the reservation.
We are going to run into the same whackos when Florence's riverfront is developed and it already makes me sick.
Development and green spaces can live in harmony.
Now on the Trail, I beg to differ... we go there a few times a week and there is no lax in people walking it, sometimes ya cannot even find a parking place
Besides, WHO is going to foreclose on what TVA owns?????? They are the government for goodness sake, they can and have owned the Tennessee River and surrounding properties for more years than most of us are old!!!
Reading the TVA website, they created the Tennessee River, so why SHOULDN'T they own it?