Many of you were interested in our recent post regarding the revitalization of North Clark Street, so we thought we’d give you a little update. We told you that @ properties was marketing 36 units at Metro Asset Management’s Clark View at 4651 N Greenview Ave (which also faces onto Clark), but we didn’t have prices. Well, here goes: the two- and three-bedroom condos are priced from the $340s to the $480s. One reader asked whether there was a surface parking lot on the site and whether it will face Clark Street and the answer is yes and yes. The parking lot is for people patronizing the retail on the first floor of Clark View.
Another little snippet that I don’t think came up in the interesting thread that followed our last post was that the city is planning to beautify the streetscape along Clark between Montrose Avenue and Ainslie Street in the fall of 2007.
Some other nearby developments on 4800 block of Clark St include the Rainbo (4836 N Clark) and another development at approx. 4858-4870 N Clark. One of the condo buildings is next to Lincoln towing. Try selling those units!
re: towing franchise, residential side street, Chicago
I want to negotiate with Lincoln Towing for the franchise for towing at my property on a residential side street in Chicago.
I’ve repeatedly told Chicago officials that research I’ve done on the history of land sales indicates that Chicago doesn’t own anything from the middle of the street to the middle of the alley between the lines on either side of my property. City officials have not responded to or denied my allegation during the past two years. A failure to deny my allegation can be interpreted as agreement with it.
City officials seem to have promoted the misperception that they own side streets, tree lawns, sidewalks, and alleys because (a) they can tax the people for paving and other services, (b) buy votes with patronage jobs, and (c) get kickbacks on a variety of contracts with private service providers.
The misperception creates near constant friction between neighbors and eventually destabilizes neighborhoods. When neighborhoods destabilize, mortgage lenders can inflate the next mortgage on the property and city/county officials can inflate property taxes. The inflated cost of shelter inflates the cost of everything else. Then officials at every level of government get to spend inflated revenues from every kind of tax (sales, income, etc.) All because of what seems to be fraud in the matter of who owns what out here on the mean streets.
· City officials didn’t buy the street.
· So many different people owned a piece of it that no part of them could cede it to the city without the consent of all of them.
Some officials might argue that they invoked their power of eminent domain. However, the power of eminent domain can’t exist in the US because of the fundamental principles of the democracy.
· All acts of government officials require a foundation in the consent of the people.
· All consent of the people requires a foundation in the rights of the people.
· None of the people have a right to seize the landed property (or person or other property) of any other person without that person’s consent.
· Hence, no voter in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, or the US has ever had a right to consent to any government act of seizure. (The only exception would be in cases when an entity has entered into an individual contract with government, and the provisions of that contract allow seizure for non-compliance.)
The history of Chicago real estate is simple:
· All land in Chicago was once public land bought and paid for by all the people of the US in their aggregate.
· Though the status of US government was murky at the time, it’s quite clear that an association of persons arranged the transfer of US soil from foreign governments to the people of the US, and the people paid taxes to finance the transfer.
· The men who founded the US then arranged for the survey and sale of the land into private ownership.
· The law that set up survey and sale also set up the template of the bill of sale and deed that government would issue to confirm the transfer from public to private ownership.
The bill of sale and deed:
· have no strings attached, and no provision for eminent domain
· guarantee government’s protection of the original purchaser’s rights to the property, as well as his heirs and assigns. (All current property owners are his heirs or assigns.)
Furthermore:
· the bills of sale and deeds are contracts and come under the protection of provisions in the constitution that forbid any law that messes with contracts.
So I’m assuming Ms. Lee doesn’t mind not having trash picked up or her street plowed (and having neighbors who hate her).
Also I want to see Obama’s original birth certificate and the typewriter it was typed on.
Anything else shows a conspiracy.
I suggest Ms Lee take some meds. I self medicate with alcohol and it works fine in moderation.
Maybe if you hadn’t parked illegally Lincoln towing would not have needed to tow your vehicle..