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It would be awful to live near a gravel pit
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| but...who are these neighbors kidding? They would never have accepted zoning if it regulated any of their activities. Maybe they get together, stop wasting money on the lawyers and buy out the gravel pit owners. If their home values are going to decrease as dramatically as they report, then it would be a wise investment to pay the gravel pits off. | |
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| i agree. i don't even like driving NEAR those gravel trucks. one rock chip a month on average.. and no, im not following too closely! since when is there so much $$$ in gravel?? exactly how much are they making? should i start digging up my back yard? | ||
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| FYI -- although not all neighborhoods have been able to organize to this point, there is at least one neighborhood that made exactly such an offer, at the fair market value of the land for residences ($25,000/acre), for 90 acres. The offer was turned down, because the landowner could make much larger profit from mining the gravel. | ||
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they were offering to buy a gravel mine....why would they offer fair market value for houses? thats like making an offer on a house by offering fmv for a tent. And $25 k per acre....must not have been in gallatin county. or it was 20 yrs ago. Maybe....if the pit makes so much money,the pit owner would buy the homes....oh right....the homeowners want $100 k per acre. |
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sorry - - I mis-wrote -- $25,000 as the median price at that time for vacant land as potential homesites at the time the offer was made. The point being that this is not a disagreement about gravel mine landowners property rights, it is a disagreement about profit margins and community membership/responsibility. Sorry for the mis-writing. |
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i could care less where these pits are put, "as long as they are not near my home." Yeah... Think about this. These greedy "bus turds" make a FORTUNE $$$ monopolizing the industry. They RUIN people's lives with nothing but DOLLAR $IGN$ in their eyes, and of course go to church on Sunday. (Not to repent of course, my goodness no...) They also flatter themselves making "donations" to the arts in the Gallatin Valley. (Very sophisticated. The "serfs" who serve their interest, of course find art at K-Mart and hang it in their trailers.) Kind of like a rusty penny, you know? (It's still a penny...) In any case, there are some "ordinary" folks who don't appreciate the lives ruined when these guys get busy to make their million$. Only solution I can think of is this: When a pit is approved, there should be ONE STIPULATION: They must be forced to "offer to purchase" at fair market value, ALL RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY within a half a mile radius of the "Hell Hole" they plan to create. Anyone want to buy a house within a half mile, to a mile of one of these "Hell Holes?" Let me know, I'll pass on the information. |
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| If we didn't have gravel pits in Gallatin County,where do you think you'd get gravel for roads and a millon other things gravel is used for??Learn to live with them,they won't be here for ever.Thanks E | |
