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(Continued from Page 1) he shouldn’t object to issuance of the permit without offering an alternative solution. He told the BZA that he’d made a joint offer with his sister for the property, putting in a bid higher than Johnson’s. According to Schaefer, the. applicant raised his original bid and in response, Schaefer offered a back-up bid. “I don’t think anyone's going to get hurt financially,” he said.
Schaefer reported that if he and his sister buy the old co-op site, they won’t apply for a special use permit and will instead tear down the ruined building which was destroyed by fire over a decade ago.
“If this was going to be built at your all’s front door, I think you would oppose it too,” interjected Dodson.
“If it was in front of my house, I would have made the county clean it up a long time ago—13 years ago,” countered BZA chairman Josef Gardiner. “When it burned, there was a law on the books that required it to be cleaned up but no one did anything about it.”
Mary Edna Schaefer said she’d asked county officials on several different occasions if the property’s owners could be competed to clean up the site and had been told that nothing could be done.
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