Vicky Texas
Well-Known Member
Hello Gang
We really need prayers for tomorrow night. We have another meeting on our property
and its zoning. And it will be a fight. We are pulling our hair out.
We had a buyer, this was 6 years ago. He was to purshase us and our nieghbors. It was
5.81 acres all together. We own 1 acre. It took a year through the City process. Then at
closing we were informed he lost his finacing. Just blew us away. So after several months
of extenisons, he walks. Now we are all zoned SP-2 for commercial, for office buildings.
Super, we wanted to be commercial, and hey we got it. It cost the buyer who walk
over $50,000.00. So he lost all this money when he walk. It was heart breaking for everyone.
We have given him every chance to come and buy us all out. It just did not happen.
I still talk to him every so often.
Well, so fast forward.. this left us in a mess, we did not know, till about 2 years ago coming
Dec. Well, we are zoned together. Meaning, now we are 5.81 acres. Not a acre that we own.
Meaning without each other we can't sale. So we find this out. Great, no one has a suggestion
on how to fix it. We have not found anyone to buy us all out either.
Now, the neighbor has a buyer for her property, and the property next to us.. well they
just sold. The buyer bought it, without doing the City process first. I am not sure how
much the seller's realtor told the buyer either. So now he is really in a jam. Now
we can't sell all togther if we wanted to. One acre in the middle is sold.
So, we go to the Planning and Zoning Meeting, it was horrible. They passed us on to
City Council. The nightmere continues, they don't know what to do either. We kept
getting called out to meet with the City's Attorney. All he wants for us to do is to go into
some holding zoning, Ag.. hello, they want us to give up our commercial zoning and
back to AG Zoning. NO deal. The battle got worse. They decided to send us back to
the Planning and Zoning to fix it. So now we go tomorrow night to fight.
We were suppose to have a meeting with the planning department who is refusing to do
this. So here we are, we are on one end, we will have commercial on both sides of us.
Commercial in the back, and they want us to give up our zoning and go back AG.
I told them NO, we have not spent the last 6 years being zoned Commercial to go
back where we started. The other answer is for us to come up with $30,000.00 and
do the plans and spend another year in Zoning to become SP-1. Sorry we don't have
that kind of cash laying around. And it would be stupid. The buyer when we get one
will want to do their own plans.
They won't let us stay the SP-2 with the property next to us sold and the next one
under contract. We are going in to ask for O1 Zoning -- office zoning with the restriction
that any buyer we get will have to get their plans approved before being given any
permitts to build. The city won't let us have it, without the restriction. Just praying with
it they will agree. If not, the buyer could do what they want.
It is just such a mess. I just get so sick. So I have get up and fight them tomorrow
night. We are number 14 to 20, tomorrow night, so it will be a late night too. In our
group, our property is the first to go. So I have to battle first. I wished it could be
the buyer for the neighbors property or the new owner go first. But nope..
So please say a prayer for us.
We just want our zoning fix in commercial and sale .. move .. be able to get on with
life.
Thanks for listening or reading our mess, sorry its so long too.
Vicky
We really need prayers for tomorrow night. We have another meeting on our property
and its zoning. And it will be a fight. We are pulling our hair out.
We had a buyer, this was 6 years ago. He was to purshase us and our nieghbors. It was
5.81 acres all together. We own 1 acre. It took a year through the City process. Then at
closing we were informed he lost his finacing. Just blew us away. So after several months
of extenisons, he walks. Now we are all zoned SP-2 for commercial, for office buildings.
Super, we wanted to be commercial, and hey we got it. It cost the buyer who walk
over $50,000.00. So he lost all this money when he walk. It was heart breaking for everyone.
We have given him every chance to come and buy us all out. It just did not happen.
I still talk to him every so often.
Well, so fast forward.. this left us in a mess, we did not know, till about 2 years ago coming
Dec. Well, we are zoned together. Meaning, now we are 5.81 acres. Not a acre that we own.
Meaning without each other we can't sale. So we find this out. Great, no one has a suggestion
on how to fix it. We have not found anyone to buy us all out either.
Now, the neighbor has a buyer for her property, and the property next to us.. well they
just sold. The buyer bought it, without doing the City process first. I am not sure how
much the seller's realtor told the buyer either. So now he is really in a jam. Now
we can't sell all togther if we wanted to. One acre in the middle is sold.
So, we go to the Planning and Zoning Meeting, it was horrible. They passed us on to
City Council. The nightmere continues, they don't know what to do either. We kept
getting called out to meet with the City's Attorney. All he wants for us to do is to go into
some holding zoning, Ag.. hello, they want us to give up our commercial zoning and
back to AG Zoning. NO deal. The battle got worse. They decided to send us back to
the Planning and Zoning to fix it. So now we go tomorrow night to fight.
We were suppose to have a meeting with the planning department who is refusing to do
this. So here we are, we are on one end, we will have commercial on both sides of us.
Commercial in the back, and they want us to give up our zoning and go back AG.
I told them NO, we have not spent the last 6 years being zoned Commercial to go
back where we started. The other answer is for us to come up with $30,000.00 and
do the plans and spend another year in Zoning to become SP-1. Sorry we don't have
that kind of cash laying around. And it would be stupid. The buyer when we get one
will want to do their own plans.
They won't let us stay the SP-2 with the property next to us sold and the next one
under contract. We are going in to ask for O1 Zoning -- office zoning with the restriction
that any buyer we get will have to get their plans approved before being given any
permitts to build. The city won't let us have it, without the restriction. Just praying with
it they will agree. If not, the buyer could do what they want.
It is just such a mess. I just get so sick. So I have get up and fight them tomorrow
night. We are number 14 to 20, tomorrow night, so it will be a late night too. In our
group, our property is the first to go. So I have to battle first. I wished it could be
the buyer for the neighbors property or the new owner go first. But nope..
So please say a prayer for us.
We just want our zoning fix in commercial and sale .. move .. be able to get on with
life.
Thanks for listening or reading our mess, sorry its so long too.
Vicky
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