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JCsleeper 1 year, 8 months ago

Wish JCMG or some other entity would do something with that weed-choked, bombed out eysore across Stadium. Now there's a Transformation project. Nevermind, it's not in the correct geographical area. Code Enforcement ought to have a look at that place.

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asb 1 year, 8 months ago

The developers who took that beautiful hillside full of dogwood, redbud and wildflowers and blasted it into it's present moonscape, then realized they hadn't the money to do anything with it, should be prosecuted. Nope, they're still out turning good land into speculative manure.

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truthbeknown 1 year, 8 months ago

The City needs to make JCMG pay for the road improvements that are needed to handle THEIR expansion! Ohhh wait in a year when they realize the roads can't handle the traffic, they'll just ask for another 1/2 cent sales tax ........

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3blindmice 1 year, 8 months ago

traffic nightmare? of course. jefferson city lacked planning from the beginning to deal with heavy traffic. southwest blvd and stadium were nothing more than country roads. I can understand the mixed model to a point but building a full fledged medical campus in the middle of a residential area is just crazy. mixing zones were always about balance.

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RobHunterJohnson 1 year, 8 months ago

Someone owns this parcel, call Code Enforcement if you are a neighbor. Rob

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asb 1 year, 8 months ago

If you want a real fun afternoon, go to the Cole Co GIS web site and see exactly who owns it, and then notice how little it's appraised and taxed. To see who blew it up you'd have to go to the courthouse and look at the plat history. Then cruise around Cole Co in your GIS flying machine to other big chunks of land that are owned by developers and speculators, often with low assessments, often with names you know. The County could use a little help pointing some of these inequities out. They'll fix them, that's what knowledge and information and education are for. I'm not picking on the County, in general assessments follow true value fairly close. But some of the exceptions are worth noting. For practice, just look up and down your street where you have a good feel for value, you'll see the usual consistancy, but keep looking, you'll find some folks skating while others are overtaxed. And as for code enforcement, unimproved property (no buildings) isn't held to as high a standard as you'd hope for. Stormwater control yes, beat-with-a-stick-ugly, not so much.

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JCLifer 1 year, 8 months ago

More corporate welfare (tax dollars) to rich investors and doctors at the expense of the taxpayers/voters.

Let JCMG move its offices somewhere else. They could buy the old St. Mary's Hospital and remodel it. Letting them build in a residential area was plain stupid to begin with.

City Hall has made a real mess of that area of town. Two roundabouts right next to each other, hundreds of acres of prime realestate being used by a rich quarrier not paying city taxes, JCMG gobbling up the residential area, Developer gets taxpayer dollars to stripmine the side of the once-beautiful hillside and then allowed to walk away scott free. Developer builds very cheap road (west Edgewood) with thin pavement and just a few years later the road is rough as a cob. etc. etc. etc.

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