{"id":11119,"date":"2014-10-27T22:33:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T02:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=11119"},"modified":"2014-10-27T22:34:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T02:34:16","slug":"outside-corporation-trumps-valdosta-citizens-about-historical-nichols-house-jim-parker-vcc-2014-10-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/outside-corporation-trumps-valdosta-citizens-about-historical-nichols-house-jim-parker-vcc-2014-10-23.html","title":{"rendered":"Outside corporation trumps Valdosta citizens about historical Nichols house? –Jim Parker @ VCC 2014-10-23"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nReceived\r\n\r\n27 October 2014<\/a>\r\nabout\r\n\r\nWhose rights come first? \u2013Tim Carroll<\/a>. -jsq\r\n

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\r\nSo because the owner of the property, which appeared to be a\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nnational property owning corporation for the fraternity’s local\r\nchapters, couldn’t, or more likely, didn’t want to see the cultural\r\nand architectural significance of the Nichols’ House, and merely\r\nwanted to unload the property as quick as possible, their property\r\nrights trump all other citizens of Valdosta in regards to our\r\nhistorical\/cultural history and what we may wish to preserve? Do\r\nprivate entities, which may not even live here, have carte blanche\r\nto run roughshod and do whatever they please in our city\r\nirregardless of the interests of the citizens that do?\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nIf you think I have a “lack of true understanding of all\r\npertinent facts of this case,” you are more than free to share\r\nwith me what those are. Yes, it may have been a “tricky\r\nthing” to prevent the owner from turning the property over to\r\na developer to build yet more apartments near VSU, but there was a\r\nvery real cultural reason for not doing that. If the city played it\r\nright, they could have made that a plus for the city. It just seemed\r\nto me the CC didn’t see that angle, with the exception of councilman\r\nYost, who unfortunately, IMO, didn’t see the importance of the\r\nproperty in the design of the house.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nI do understand that my arguments are more artistic and cultural in\r\nnature, much less so financial and economic. I just believe that it\r\nis these artistic and cultural that make our city desirable to live\r\nin, above the immediate financial and economic arguments. which act\r\nin detriment of our long term economic interests. I could easily\r\nhave seen the Nichols House, preserved and turned into a VSU medical\r\nclinic for students living out in that direction from campus.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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