There remains the rights of your neighbors to rezone your property. There is no way to opt out.

There remains the HUGE loophole of unilateral (with no-recourse) HPO rezoning by a majority of the city commissioners.

If Historic hysteria arrives in your neighborhood, you will not come out of it unscathed. Not in Tallahassee.

Thanks for the link, Mark. That is indeed a very frightening story – that the city could take away all your property rights by designating your neighborhood a “Historic District” and thus controlling every tiny detail of your property and rights to do anything with it. Sadly, I live in one of the areas that could get this treatment (not Lafayette Park) and I’m wondering if I should finally just pull up stakes and leave Tallahassee before this scam decends on my neighborhood.

Do you or Steve know where this is at now? Was the ARB reformed and/or city code changes made to prevent this from happening, or is it still looming out there?

Bruce – your mind is fixedly made up on Trump, you desperately WANT to believe this unsupported-by-facts garbage about his hotel in DC and the emoluments clause. Since you so desperately want to believe it, it must be true – just as all the Lib Dems in DC are crying. But what has to be presented is incontrovertible proof, and none has been found so far. Certainly not to the point of a case. Same with the ridiculous “Russia Collusion” investigation. All that Dem outrage while they utterly ignore the proven and documented “Pay for Play” scheme run by Hillary and Bill. If Trump had smashed Blackberries laying around and illegal email servers stuffed in bathrooms somewhere in Denver, you and the Dems and CNN would be howling for his blood, but since it the Devine Ms. Hillary, there’s “nothing to see here”. So this hypocrisy you decry seems to cut both ways, there’s no denying that. One thing is inarguably true: Hillary nor obama could withstand one-tenth of the investigative and journalistic digging that Trump has thus far. obama’s documented past is still locked away and hidden, and lib journalists utterly ignored that and they still attack anyone who won’t. Where is the “hypocrisy” you detest now? You increasingly sound like Maxine Waters with her “Impeach Trump” screeching.

I completely agree with you that Republicans who are committing corruption and/or enriching themselves with the advantages of their position deserve to be prosecuted and punished, just as Dems who are corrupt. Political affiliation is no excuse for wrongdoing, period. I’d convict one of them as quickly as a Dem who was proven guilty.

However, this publication and website are generally about local issues and we waste space by going far afield – there are plenty of other sites dealing with the national and state issues you want to discuss. If you want to “troll” and disrupt and criticize other TR commenters, you are simply the digital equivalent of a Soros-paid street or town hall protester. If your intent is to disrupt, you’re accomplishing that, but little else.

It might be illuminating to current readers of TR that the FBI became interested in RICO activity in Tallahassee government at about the time of the above linked article which was published July 4, 2011.

So just because I disrupted your little anti-COT pep rally, I’m automatically a liberal. Once again, this site’s readers reveal their hypocrisy. You don’t know what my views are because I have never stated them. You assume I’m a liberal just because I mentioned that some commenters are hypocritical, and that’s not the case.

I’m more or less a moderate. You know, the people that agree with both sides on various issues.

I originally started reading TR because of the Democrat’s lousy reporting on city hall, but the level of hatred hurled towards the other side is appalling. Liberals are not your enemy, and they are not going to destroy this country anymore than conservatives are.

Preston, glad to see I upset you. You and I both know the proof is there. More and more comes out each and every day, and no, I’m not going to recite it to you either. You know how Trump conducts himself in office is ethically wrong and likely ilegal. Same with plenty of other politicians YOU support. Does Rick Scott ring a bell? Why did he take the Fifth again?

Here’s my point, Preston. It’s not that the COT has behaved illegally. They have and should face the consequences. My issue is the double standard many readers of this site share when it comes to holding Republican politicians accountable as well.

And no, I’m not going to go “troll” somewhere else. If you don’t like what I have to say, you can either ignore it or debate it. I will give you some credit on trying to articulate a response, but you didn’t really argue anything. You made an absolute statement, which we both know is false. Accusations of collusion, violations of the emoluments clause, and misconduct in office are not going to go away. The question is are people like yourself going to stand for one side and one alone, or will you take a balanced approach?

The choice is yours, Preston.