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Concerning the OWDA delay in approving the loan for the sewer plant expansion/Hickory Lakes purchase, Lou Postage is quoted in this week's Pickerington Times-Sun as saying he ''was concerned the delay might hurt Pickerington's chances for purchasing Hickory Lakes, which, he said, has been eyed by developers offering more money for its purchase than the city has offered.''
However, I remember reading quotes in the local papers by the Bucillas saying that the area will never be developed.
Additionally, the area is supposed to be a wetland, right?
Can someone clarify this for me?
By Debbie
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Township
I understand the township tried to purchase Hickory Lakes a couple of years ago for ~ $3M and was turned down.
Is this true ?
Does anyone know why ?
By Another Question...
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Yes
Yes, the township did offer to purchase the place. I can't say what the price was but what I do know is that the township offered the price paid over 3 years instead of lump sum. The owners turned down that offer.
The same owners and their family then went on a city-oriented (written by our PR person and paid for by whom??) media rampage where they denied any greed several times.
By Happens to Know
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Hickory Lakes
Folks I haven't heard any of the newly elected city council members or the new Mayor say they outwardly opposed the purchase of the Hickory Lakes. Joyce Bushman packaged this purchase into a sewer expansion project which would have cost the area residents more than they can afford in new schools and new homes over the next few years. Lou Postage tried to say that this would serve Pickerington for 25 years. Why are we planning 25 years out? That is a tremendous amount of debt and if the housing market falls in that 25 years what happens to those holding the debt?
If you truly want to control growth then the city must pull back on how much sewer capacity is available.
I believe the This Week in Pickerington indicates that the loan is still available even after the first of the year. I think that issue will be considered very quickly by the new government. I think the family that owns the Hickory Lakes was used by the out going city manager to cerate a crisis and put pressure on those opposed to the sewer expansion.
Maybe Joyce could use a new technique in her next job. HONESTY!
By Jimmy
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