CircuitWriter's Profile

For the property rights advocates out there, I think it's easy to forget about the flipside of preservation laws. By those laws being in place, you're protected from your neighbors making drastic changes to your community, and potentially negatively affecting your property value. It's not an attack on private property rights--in many ways, it actually protects your investment. But it's your responsibility as a buyer to know what you're getting.

All that being said, in this specific situation it sounds like the city dropped the ball if this article is accurate. Not only was the building unprotected, they granted the owner permission to do what he wanted! So, although I totally agree that this place is awesome and should be preserved, I grudingly think the developer is in the right. Ideally the city/partners/FLW groups could pull resources and buy it from the guy at a fair price; more likely, this will probably end up a "teachable moment."