In this situation I feel the issue of Eminent Doman gives more than it takes. In our continuing efforts to beautify Galesburg, demolishing several dilapidated properties and building a beautiful, 21st century library will serve our public good with a community-space for all ages, far more than keeping those degraded properties on the Main thoroughfare would. The Don Moffitt overpass on W. Main St was a wonderful improvement, as was the E. Main St underpass and the Kellogg/Seminary St overpass. The property owners would assumably receive assessed value plus ten percent, giving them a fair value, and the library project would not be unnecessarily held-up further due to greed or animus. The project already in the planning since 2012, will likely receive the state funding from Illinois’ 2019 Capital Infrastructure Bill; funding would not be forthcoming until late 2020, and the properties need to be razed, for the development to begin in earnest for ‘Our Town’.
Trish Forsyth Voss
Feb 17 2020
Should the City Council grant Eminent Domain to Galesburg Public Library to acquire six parcels of land for the planned new library site?
In this situation I feel the issue of Eminent Doman gives more than it takes. In our continuing efforts to beautify Galesburg, demolishing several dilapidated properties and building a beautiful, 21st century library will serve our public good with a community-space for all ages, far more than keeping those degraded properties on the Main thoroughfare would. The Don Moffitt overpass on W. Main St was a wonderful improvement, as was the E. Main St underpass and the Kellogg/Seminary St overpass. The property owners would assumably receive assessed value plus ten percent, giving them a fair value, and the library project would not be unnecessarily held-up further due to greed or animus. The project already in the planning since 2012, will likely receive the state funding from Illinois’ 2019 Capital Infrastructure Bill; funding would not be forthcoming until late 2020, and the properties need to be razed, for the development to begin in earnest for ‘Our Town’.
Trish Forsyth Voss
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