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Commissioners vote to raze building
By JENNIFER LISTON Staff Reporter
A building at 600 Massachusetts St. condemned by the city to make room for a parking lot, will be torn down despite the former owner's last-minute attempts to save the building, the City Commission decides last night.
More than 50 supporters of the fight waged by former owner Bryan Anderson booed and hissed as a city attorney recommended that the city go ahead with its planned 25-space parking lot across from City Hall.
to a legal report in a one-hour closed session.
The Commissioners voted four to one to demolish the building after listening
City Attorney Gerald Cooley said that by stopping the parking lot, the city could be sued by holders of city bonds or another building and another lot just east of it.
Buyers of the bonds, issued in December, were guaranteed payment of the one- to 10-year bonds, Cooley said. Selling the bonds back or breaking the bond contracts would endanger the city's reputation on the bond market and make it harder for the city to sell bonds in the future, he said.
"My opinion is that you should proceed as intended," he told the crowd.
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Anderson charged that the Commission had misplaced its priorities.
Anderson said he was not aware of the 30-day limit.
"You're more concerned with the bondholders than with the taxpayers of this town," Anderson told the Commission.
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Anderson had 30 days after the Sept. 21, 1979, meeting to file a protest, Cooley said. Anderson's lawsuit, filed in March to appeal the award for the verdict in the 1982 trial, had that Anderson was not satisfied with the condemnation, Cooley said.
"We've heard from your attorney,
now what about his attorney?" she
One woman in the audience complained that Anderson had not been able to plead in his behalf before the Commission.
Cooley said that Anderson's attorney should have tried to stop the condemnation in September, after the Commission first discussed the proposed parking lot and voted to sell bonds.
"You mean the attorney who didn't
pay days?" Commissioner
Barkley Clark said.
Francisco had tears in her eyes after the commissioners voted to go ahead with the demolition of the building. The police and audience shock her hand after the vote.
The audience applauded when Commissioner Marci Francisco asked that the Commission apologize to her for failing to handle the building's condensation.
The Commission will accept bids Nov. 11 for the demolition of the building.
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