Sorry to be so slow on the uptake on this, Weber County Forum readers, but the Standard-Examimer has an article up today which aptly illustrates why real estate development amateurs like Boss Godfrey in the instant case, have no business at all meddling in the local real estate development development arena:
• Ogden Council briefed on river project proposalRemember People, Boss Godfrey has already had River Front properties tied up for over eight years, leaving anyone who still own properties in that area in complete economic limbo.
Now we learn that the Geniuses Of Godfrey's "A" team "may" or "may not" have a proposal from Jeff Lee, president of Lee Homes, possibly or not, maybe by the end of the year, maybe.
And how stupid is this airhead comment from airhead Ogden City Council Chair Caitlin Gochnour?
City Council Chairwoman Caitlin K. Gochnour said it is important that the project protect the value of the river.Well... Doh. Our confidence in Council Chair Gochnor wanes with her every idiotic utterance.
And assuming that Gadi Leshem contractor referral Jeff Lee gets the nod from the council to take on the job...
It could take seven to 10 years to complete the river project, which will be built in phasesOkay people, so let's sum it up:
Early in Boss Godfrey's administration he targeted people in the River Front Area, and decided, just like a botched LDS Ogden version of Joseph Stalin, that he knew better than these property owners and residents how to use and enjoy their own properties in that area. As the smoke clears we now still have (literally) firetrap properties in the River Project Area... and instead of having the previously existing "functional but not fancy" tax-paying residential/commercial neighborhood along the Ogden River, as it was before Boss Godfrey put his iron hand upon the area, we now have have instead an economic no man's land, which generates zero timely payments to the Ogden City tax base, just as it probably will remain so for most of the next decade, at least.
This example of government intermeddling people, is of course a glaring object lesson about why government officials, especially morons like Boss Godfrey, should NOT meddle in the economic marketplace!
And what say our gentle readers about all this?
