{"id":11112,"date":"2014-10-27T00:32:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T04:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=11112"},"modified":"2014-10-27T00:33:56","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T04:33:56","slug":"whose-rights-come-first-tim-carroll-vcc-2014-10-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/whose-rights-come-first-tim-carroll-vcc-2014-10-23.html","title":{"rendered":"Whose rights come first? &#8211;Tim Carroll @ VCC 2014-10-23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nReceived 25 October 2014 on<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/too-bad-about-the-nichols-house-jim-parker-vcc-2014-10-23.html#comment-29760\"><br \/>\nToo bad about the Nichols House \u2013Jim Parker @ VCC 2014-10-23<\/a>. -jsq<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-size:100%\">\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wctv.tv\/home\/headlines\/Valdosta-City-Council-Could-Vote-On-Future-Of-Alden-Park-Thursday-Night-274812071.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;width:300px\" src=\"http:\/\/gray-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/captures\/9CE\/AD6\/9CEAD6E4C7904E368BB894473FF5EAD6\"><\/a><br \/>\nI realize many may think none on council heard what Dr. Willis had<br \/>\nto say, but that was not the case. What I think was missed by many<br \/>\nin the audience was the fact that the owner of this property was not<br \/>\nthe applicant of this request, but was adamantly opposed to it. Not<br \/>\nonly did they have an offer on the table to sell, but it was pending<br \/>\nthe outcome of the vote regarding historic designation. To take away<br \/>\nthe rights of a property owner at the request of another is a very<br \/>\ntricky thing. Whose rights come first? This was a tough decision in<br \/>\nand unto itself. To suggest that only the monetary value of the<br \/>\nproperty for taxation purposes drove the decision demonstrates a<br \/>\nlack of true understanding of the all the pertinent facts of this<br \/>\ncase.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n-Tim Carroll\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=11099&#038;preview=true#Nichols-House-HPC-2014-63-pro-and-con\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/n2HxhRXDcOA\/default.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nI think<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=11099&#038;preview=true#Nichols-House-HPC-2014-63-pro-and-con\"><br \/>\nthe applicant&#8217;s frat alumnus attorney speaking for 15 minutes against<\/a> probably tipped off most people about that first point. -jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Received 25 October 2014 on Too bad about the Nichols House \u2013Jim Parker @ VCC 2014-10-23. -jsq I realize many may think none on council heard what Dr. Willis had to say, but that was not the case. What I think was missed by many in the audience was the fact that the owner of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,16,2,19,54,134,55],"tags":[7990,7944,8704,8705,8706,8701,8699,10,8709,3491,8702,12,7,7945,4,63,6,8726,8743,8727],"class_list":["post-11112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-education","category-environment","category-government","category-history","category-valdosta-city-council","category-vsu","category-water","tag-23-october-2014","tag-alfred-willis","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-georgia","tag-government","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-history","tag-jim-parker","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-nichols-house","tag-regular-session","tag-tim-carroll","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-city-council","tag-vsu","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11114,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11112\/revisions\/11114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}