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Non-profit Group Wishes to Purchase, Maintain Pere Marquette Cross
This seems to me to be the optimal solution. Taxpayers do not have to be forced to subsidize what could be seen by some to be a conflict with the Establishment Clause, the money and labor will come from a group legally bound to maintain the site as it is with other restrictive covenants. MACRA and Freedom from Religion groups may bristle and gnash their teeth, but everybody wins; PM Township even has an extra $80,000 to give back to the township taxpayers.
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Permalink Reply by Willy on
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All that would need to be transferred to private hands is a 20 ft x 20 ft patch of land that the base of the cross stands on. I would not want the entire site to be removed from public ownership. Also, why not establish the area as a cemetary?
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Permalink Reply by AQUAMAN on
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I think someone should look at the plat map which would indicate the separate two parcels measurements and locations first. Perhaps this is in the agreement's offer already. This would clearly show where and how much land is being sold. And the bid to repair the site was $75K, not $80K, but perhaps that is a bonus to the original repair contract. I'd rather see what happens for a while first, with the ACLJ, and what Ed White's ideas are for legal defense, if it even comes to that.
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Permalink Reply by shinblind on
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If the unnamed group wishes to purchase this property would the restrictions in the deed cause it to revert back to the Butters estate and would any negotiations on price have to be with the descendants of the estate instead of PM township?
If the descendants of the Butters estate are excluded from the sale would PM township be opening themselves up to a future lawsuit on the potential lake view value of the property?
Does this unnamed group have the financial recourses to get involved in a biding war over this property?
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