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Whiny, negligent, neighbors.

In Reply to: Macca Destroys Coburgs Herritage posted by Macca destroys Coburg Herritage on June 27, 1999 at 14:04:14:

If McDonalds owned the property, there's nothing you can do, folks.

Perhaps the seller of the property should have been persuaded not to sell to a buyer named McDonalds knowing full well they didn't want it for a summer home. Perhaps, if the citizenry were so concerned about protecting their local heritage, they could have sponsored a drive to buy the property and have it converted into a historic museum or otherwise preserve it for the future.

But to merely protest- to picket and whine and sign petitions, doesn't have any proactive effect in preserving those structures. In the end it will come down to what the residents want to do and what McDonalds wants to do. In cases where there are differences of opinion the final decision is going to fall to the owner.

I'm not surprised, though I am disgusted at the simpleminded approach people take to property rights these days.

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