Jun
21
Around six years ago, the voters of Aurora raised their taxes to purchase land to be preserved for greenspace and recreation. This was overwelming supported. Every other tax levy proposed by the city has been voted down.
Now, the city might be selling off some of that land that was purchased with the tax money. This is short sighted and wrong! Read more here
Why should you care? THere is a lot of other land owned by the city. Current councilmen may just decide to sell off more, because they don’t know what to do with it right now. Most of the land purchased was never protected by deed restrictions or zoning or conservation easments.
Preserved means saved forever. Not sold within 10 years.
I bet that somebody has someone already lined up to buy this land! Across the street the last dairy farm is already owned by a developer, i heard they want to put in a golf course community. A little extra land wouldn’t hurt.
Would this land be restricted after the sale? Or could the new owner divide it up and build? Is 22 acres enough for a PUD (planned unit development)?
This stinks! Call your councillman, call the mayor and go to the council meetings!
Burn the house if you want but don’t sell the land. Have some foresight and vision for the next hundred years. councilmen!
Why is the city suddenly selling 22 acres? Wern’t they talking about 5 acres at oner time?
I smell bad carp.
The city doesn’t want the responsability of maintaining that property. They seem to be in the habit of presenting a plan to buy land, purchase it, then 2 years later change their minds on what to do with it.
I’m all for “some” green space but to buy land for ball fields, then all of a sudden change your mind and say “no”, we’ll just let this land sit is wrong.
The city does not have the funds nor the manpower to maintain all these properties.
What are we going to do with this land? How many hiking trails does one town need? Half the properties your not even allowed to use. What’s the point?
I don’t have a problem with the areas you aren’t allowed to use. Sometimes preservation just for preservation’s sake is important. As for how many hiking trails, I don’t think you can ever have “too many” trails and green spaces. Twinsburg has dozens of trails and I see people on them nearly every day that I drive out that way.