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    • City shouldn’t use tax dollars to build road into development
    10 months ago | 1618 views | 22 22 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend | print


    Editor:

    Why should dollars, apparently designated toward extension of Veterans Boulevard, be spent for the sake of completing a private developer’s project?

    Dumplin Creek, when completed, will make its money back and big ongoing profits for the developer/owner. If the Sevierville Board of Mayor and Aldermen changes polices and gives the developer money to aid completion of his personal project, they open a new can a worms for other developers with rich dreams who are not wanting to use their personal money to see them through.

    “Gives” is the key word. We’d be handing over $8.5 million to do a road, paid back not with the developer’s own profits but with taxes his development would already be obligated to pay back.

    Best case: BOMA loans the money to hasten project completion and tax revenue collection. In the end, the road is done and project development is hastened along, the city gets its taxes, the developer pays back the $8.5 million from lease income, and the developer starts getting a share of profits that will increase as the debt is repaid.

    Better than paying taxes on a large volume of empty commercial property — that is, if taxes were not relinquished to entice development of the Dumplin Creek project.

    Charles Rhodes

    Seymour
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    comments (22)
    « Shameful wrote on Monday, Dec 28 at 02:17 PM »
    If only Reality Check knew the meaning of half the words he uses...*sigh*...it's called "context", RC.
    « stupidity wrote on Tuesday, Nov 10 at 08:37 AM »
    Most have nothing to do with anything except reality check's personal hate. He is also using "counterpoint" as his name along with ultra flow & a couple others. He likes to bad mouth the county he lives in. He is easy to spot under any name. He rants about white caps & blue bills, Mr Temple, Dollywood, monument of stupidity, & stuck on stupid under each name. And he expects us not to notice all are the same poster.
    « Signmaker wrote on Monday, Nov 09 at 10:42 AM »
    What do the majority of these comments, seen below, have to do with the toopic? Nothing. Let's try and stay on topic.
    « oh really wrote on Sunday, Nov 01 at 08:12 PM »
    I am extremely familiar with local city ordinances and executive rulings.
    « Reality Check wrote on Friday, Oct 30 at 03:46 PM »
    I will only agree to disagree with you so we can end it. I have no idea who Mr. Loy is and I sincerely doubt any of his gripes have become law either.

    I really think you need to familiarize yourself with local city ordinances, executive rulings and the legislative, judicial and executive branch composition of our democratic government structure and the Constitution of the United States.

    Gripers just don't get what they want in the REAL WORLD. They may with the Good Ole Boy System of corrupt governing though which needs to be abolished.

    Conversation Over. We are in total disagreement.
    « not my gripes wrote on Friday, Oct 30 at 02:49 PM »
    I did not say MY gripes have become laws. You are hard headed. Here is an example, If mr Loy complains about the traffic problems enough, and the city looks into it and the commision votes to make forks of the river bypass one way, then he will have gotten what he wanted. For someone who likes to use big words, you seem very simple minded. How do you think laws become laws if they were not first someone's idea? Someone wanted the speed limit lowered on hwy 66, they complained about traffic moving too fast, the speed limit was eventually lowered. Now can you see how someone's complaint can result in laws being changed? I am really tired of trying to explain this to you.
    « Reality Check wrote on Friday, Oct 30 at 02:30 PM »
    I am going to conclude by venturing an interrogatory that lesson was ascertained by standing in a garage.

    Intelligence is not visually decipherable by those that are not. That is now abundantly clear for all to observe.

    Would it presumptuous of me to inquire as to the practical application of your theory. That is to say, just how many of your gripes have become laws?

    I rest my case ladies and gentlemen.
    « wordoftheday wrote on Friday, Oct 30 at 01:51 PM »
    right out of the dictionary. You know, using big words does not make a person look intelligent any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
    « Reality Check wrote on Friday, Oct 30 at 12:45 PM »
    Interesting concept and explanation of developmental inadequacies.

    Ritualistic of local culture and best observed from a distance. Well suited as a political leader of the eviscerated populous and geographically indigenous.
    « mgrdichianstupidity wrote on Friday, Oct 30 at 11:12 AM »
    BLOVIATE..... hahaha let me use small words for you,... I did not claim that I had the first concept of anything. I am trying to tell you that if a person sees a need for something, they bring it to the attention of public, then it is voted on. Yes that's how it has been done for years. I still say, every law on the books began as a complaint because someone saw something that needed changing. What is so hard to understand about that?
    « Reality Check wrote on Friday, Oct 30 at 10:32 AM »
    The concept of mutual ideas coming to fruition to mature into a consensus is not yours nor is it unique. To bloviate to that end lacks insight.

    This concept was first forged into reality by our founding fathers and was called the Declaration of Independence. I believe the gripe was taxes on tea.

    Your cognitive interpretation is primitive at best. You do however explain the need for educational advancements and improvements very well though.
    « let me explain wrote on Friday, Oct 30 at 09:43 AM »
    I am speaking from a first concept, first thought, first little spark of an idea, ... it starts with someone wanting something done or changed. Every law was first an idea of an individual, it isn't likely that several people had the very same thought and made a motion to do something at the very same time. If you can't understand that, maybe I could draw you a map.
    « Reality Check wrote on Friday, Oct 30 at 07:19 AM »
    So making an application of this logic, roads and laws are one in the same.

    Traffic flow can change laws.

    I always thought laws were made by the legislative branch of government and roads were made by construction companies.

    There you go shallow thinking explained.
    « shallow wrote on Friday, Oct 30 at 12:54 AM »
    It's really very simple, laws are passed when they are voted on, they are voted on because someone brought up the idea in the first place. Someone brought up the idea because they thought something needed changing. It started with a thought because someone was not content with things the way they were.

    Example, one guy is griping about not enough traffic flow south on the so-called bypass, if he makes enough noise and talks to the right people, he may be iinstrumental in eventually getting the road fixed the way he wants it.

    So, again I say, things that are voted into law began as someone's complaint.
    « Reality Check wrote on Thursday, Oct 29 at 10:32 PM »
    There seems to be a shallow comprehension of the democratic concept of this country. I fail to see where gripes have turned into laws as well.

    Majority rule has been the cornerstone of our system of representative republic system, of the people, by the people and for the people.

    The laws of the land are to benefit and protect all of the people. We are a nation of laws, not shallow uninformed opinions and gripes or selfishness indignation.
    « my opinion wrote on Thursday, Oct 29 at 05:41 PM »
    I don't expect special priveliges for being born here, and I sure ain't hopping away just because some republican transplant wants me to. Gripes can also turn into laws. Every law on the books was created because someone did not like the way something was done. If a person is in favor, or agrees with someone, it's just called a favorable opiniion, but if they disagree, it's considered a gripe.
    « Reality Check wrote on Thursday, Oct 29 at 02:05 PM »
    Opinions can be turned into votes. Votes determine

    representative leadership and control.

    Grips are self serving at best and superficial indignation.

    One place of birth give no special privilege either.
    « my opinion wrote on Thursday, Oct 29 at 11:15 AM »
    And my opinion is just as good as yours. What will I do if people don't share my opinion?? I will just continue to do as you do, GRIPE!

    I have been here all my life, and this guy is not "hopping" anywhere!! Maybe it's time for you to get hoppin'
    « to counterpoint wrote on Tuesday, Oct 27 at 05:01 PM »
    Yes I know what it's called, and I do my part by voting. That is what I was suggesting when I said, "UNLESS WE GET RID OF THEM". But more people need to get involved to get these incumbents out of office.
    « Counter Point wrote on Tuesday, Oct 27 at 08:03 AM »
    It is called VOTING......you ought to try it sometime. It exercises the whole body along with the jaw muscles. It will require you to get up off your couch though!