Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Cottage fight continues.....
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Chapter 2--Long Beach, MS.
Question:
-What are your regulations or restrictions on modular homes in the City of Long Beach?
-What are your objections to the Katrina Cottages?
These are not mobile homes they are modular, approved by the State Fire Marshall, and up held by judges. Perhaps you don't like them, we don't like your home either. But that does not give us the right to force you to move, just as you do not have the right to force these families to move. It takes people from all kinds of jobs to make a City and make it work. From politicians to pastors, mechanics to magistrates, council members and lawyers. No one has the right to tell another that they can not live here or have this type of home to be here and accepted it. This type of class posturing is unacceptable in our cities and violates everything that I, as a Veteran, have fought for. This type of action, makes my stomach turn and serves to strengthen my resolve to overturn it. I have been in the Military since 1984. I tell you this not out of boast, but to illustrate my dedication and commitment to the things I believe in. I do not give up and never fold at the sign of a fight.
Davis "Beau" Kring
WavelandWatchers.wordpress.com
Tuesday, Oct. 6th,
Long Beach meeting was a success for the 5 cottage dwellers who are beginning litigation with the City. They are safe for the time being. But for the other 17 cottage dwellers, the uncertainty continues.
Question:
-What are your regulations or restrictions on modular homes in the City of Long Beach?
-What are your objections to the Katrina Cottages?
These are not mobile homes they are modular, approved by the State Fire Marshall, and up held by judges. Perhaps you don't like them, we don't like your home either. But that does not give us the right to force you to move, just as you do not have the right to force these families to move. It takes people from all kinds of jobs to make a City and make it work. From politicians to pastors, mechanics to magistrates, council members and lawyers. No one has the right to tell another that they can not live here or have this type of home to be here and accepted it. This type of class posturing is unacceptable in our cities and violates everything that I, as a Veteran, have fought for. This type of action, makes my stomach turn and serves to strengthen my resolve to overturn it. I have been in the Military since 1984. I tell you this not out of boast, but to illustrate my dedication and commitment to the things I believe in. I do not give up and never fold at the sign of a fight.
Davis "Beau" Kring
WavelandWatchers.wordpress.com
Tuesday, Oct. 6th,
Long Beach meeting was a success for the 5 cottage dwellers who are beginning litigation with the City. They are safe for the time being. But for the other 17 cottage dwellers, the uncertainty continues.
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My response involves the cottages in general, and MEMA's breach of contract for refusing to sell as promised.
I applaud those that were able to successfully fight for the right to permanently place their MEMA cottage on their own private property. We had to buy a parcel for the permanent placement of our cottage because the Jackson County Planning Commission has designated them manufactured homes, and allowes their permanent placement only in areas allowing such.
There's another fight brewing over the cottage controversy that my family is fighting right now...the right to purchase it! MEMA has other plans for these cottages; They plan to divert funds designated for this program into the Port Project at Gulfport.
In the past couple of weeks, we have been served with 3 Illegal Eviction Notices, designed and delivered for no other purpose than to deprive us of due process and scare us into abandoning the cottage. BEWARE.
MEMA wants these cottages back. I urge everyone to read the promises to program participants made on the official MEMA/MAHP website (http://mscottage.org); Be sure to read the Q&A section. Everyone that was selected to receive a cottage and who participates in the Alternative Housing Pilot Program, has the right to buy their cottage. Everyone that has a suitable site, private or commercial, and who has not relinquished their cottage to MEMA, has the right to buy their cottage. Enticing literature is tantamount to an offer, and delivery of the unit is tantamount of an acceptance. Some of us even have written price quotes. It’s all evidence of an acknowledged obligation.
We upheld our end of the bargain by submitting to MEMA oversight and by allowing MEMA access to personal information in addition to scheduled periodic inspections of the cottage...for their use in the analysis of the suitability of the cottages for future use in future disasters. We have already substantially performed the terms of this contract, and now, MEMA doesn’t want to do it anymore.
I, for one, won’t take this sitting down. We’ve spent $18,000 in anticipation of buying this cottage. Money we never would have spent in the manner in which it was, all based on the oral and written word and unquestioned good faith of the State of Mississippi. We must all "hold their feet to the fire". I have been disillusioned by this whole MEMA experience.
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I applaud those that were able to successfully fight for the right to permanently place their MEMA cottage on their own private property. We had to buy a parcel for the permanent placement of our cottage because the Jackson County Planning Commission has designated them manufactured homes, and allowes their permanent placement only in areas allowing such.
There's another fight brewing over the cottage controversy that my family is fighting right now...the right to purchase it! MEMA has other plans for these cottages; They plan to divert funds designated for this program into the Port Project at Gulfport.
In the past couple of weeks, we have been served with 3 Illegal Eviction Notices, designed and delivered for no other purpose than to deprive us of due process and scare us into abandoning the cottage. BEWARE.
MEMA wants these cottages back. I urge everyone to read the promises to program participants made on the official MEMA/MAHP website (http://mscottage.org); Be sure to read the Q&A section. Everyone that was selected to receive a cottage and who participates in the Alternative Housing Pilot Program, has the right to buy their cottage. Everyone that has a suitable site, private or commercial, and who has not relinquished their cottage to MEMA, has the right to buy their cottage. Enticing literature is tantamount to an offer, and delivery of the unit is tantamount of an acceptance. Some of us even have written price quotes. It’s all evidence of an acknowledged obligation.
We upheld our end of the bargain by submitting to MEMA oversight and by allowing MEMA access to personal information in addition to scheduled periodic inspections of the cottage...for their use in the analysis of the suitability of the cottages for future use in future disasters. We have already substantially performed the terms of this contract, and now, MEMA doesn’t want to do it anymore.
I, for one, won’t take this sitting down. We’ve spent $18,000 in anticipation of buying this cottage. Money we never would have spent in the manner in which it was, all based on the oral and written word and unquestioned good faith of the State of Mississippi. We must all "hold their feet to the fire". I have been disillusioned by this whole MEMA experience.
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