The Closing of Our Right of Way

August 15, 1999 – Submitted by Lillian Francis

JEFFERSON COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

BEFORE CLOSING THE 20FT ALLEY RUNNING NORTH AND SOUTH BETWEEN LOTS 14,29,15, AND 31,16, AND 32 ALL FACTS SHOULD BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION :

1. HOW WILL OUR SEPTIC BE DRAINED?

2. HOW WILL EMERGENCY VEHICLES GET TO PROPERTY IN CASE OF MISFORTUNE (FIRE MEDICAL ETC.)

3. PROPERTY VALUES? DURSTS’ WILL GO UP. FRANCISS’ WILL GO DOWN.

4. NO WAY TO GET HEAVY EQUIPTMENT ON AND OFF PROPERTY TO POSSIBLY RAISE OUR PROPERTY VALUE.

5. NO WAY TO GET LEISURE VEHICLES ON AND OFF PROPERTY

6. IF PERHAPS WE WERE GOING TO MOVE WE WOULD HAVE NO WAY OF GETTING A VEHICLE ONTO PROPERTY WE WILL BE COMPLETLY “LANDLOCKED”

7. WE PAID TO HAVE ALLEYWAY OPENED UPON SUGGESTION AND RECOMMENDATION OF KNOX TWP TRUSTEE JOHN OLESKI IN SUMMER OF 1997 AND HAVE KEPT UP THE RIGHT OF WAY UNTIL TODAY AUGUST 15, 1999.(NO ONE ELSE HAS KEPT THIS ALLEY WAY UP )

8. WHEN WE ARE OLD AND HAVE TO POSSIBLY BE PICKED UP BY PUBLIC SERVICE VEHICLES HOW WILL THEY GET IN TO GET US? (CHURCH, SHOPPING ETC.)

9. WE WERE NOTIFIED BY THIS BY OUR NEIGHBOR MR. ROBERT DURST IMPLANTING STAKES ON OUR PROPERTY AND TELLING US THAT WE HAD TO HAVE ANYTHING WE NEED OFF OUR PROPERTY SO THAT WE WOULD NOT TRESPASS ANY LONGER ON HIS SO CALLED ALLEY. WHY WERENT WE NOTIFIED BY COUNTY. WE ALL HAVE FULL TIME JOBS AND DID NOT SEE THE THE VERY SMALL PRINT IN THE PAPER. ON A MATTER OF THIS MAGNATUDE WE FEEL WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED BY MAIL AT LEAST WE COULD HAVE HAD A SAY IN THIS MATTER.

WE WOULD GREATLY APPRICIATE SOME THOUGHT TENDED TO THIS MATTER BEFORE YOU RENDER A FINAL DECISION. OUR FUTURE AS HOMEOWNERS AND CITIZENS OF OUR AND YOUR COMMUNITY RESTS ON YOUR DECISION. PLEASE WE INVITE YOU TO COME OUT AND SEE OUR DILEMMA.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME,
RANDALL R. FRANCIS
LILLIAN M. FRANCIS
ROBERT C. ASH III
MICHELLE A. ASH