Comments on: DeKalb Avenue greenspace fund accepting donations

By: nast

nast — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:43:25 +0000

Cool, thanks. A publicly-owned lot could have changed my opinion. However, telling people what they should or shouldn\\\’t do with their private property is a slippery slope.

By: Thomas Wheatley

Thomas Wheatley — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:33:36 +0000

Sorry about that. I loaded the wrong post earlier. The land is privately-owned.

By: Andisheh Nouraee

Andisheh Nouraee — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:18:46 +0000

Nast — You are correct. It is privately owned. I fixed the error. Thanks for catching that.

Incidentally, I don’t understand Ms. Stewart’s characterization of the property either.

It’s the last undeveloped lot, I think, but it isn’t public. It’s private property.

By: nast

nast — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:27:05 +0000

Wait, I’m confused. This article states that the land is “publicly-owned”, while every other article has implied it is privately-owned. Which is correct?

I live in Lake Claire and wish the neighbors luck in this endeavor, but $1,000,000 is a lot to pay for 1/2 acre, especially when the Lake Claire Land Trust is simultaneously trying to raise $250,000 to acquire the 1/3 acre Tree Climbers International lot only a couple of blocks away.

As an aside, I don’t quite understand the repeated references to this lot being “the last publicly accessible greenspace on DeKalb Ave”. The Land Trust is 7 acres of greenspace and only several blocks away. Does that not count?