For those of you keeping up with our driveway ordeal, here’s what happened at our meeting with the city council today: The City decided to drop the lawsuit and acquire our driveway in a more conventional manner. I still can’t figure out why they want it, but it looks like it’s getting settled in a normal and fair way. The money and stuff is good, but the best part was when our lawyer told them that we were, of course, aware that they had the power to just condemn the land anytime they wanted. ie. “We know that your city attorney duped you into wasting $30,000.00.” Haha.
We tried to add the condition that the city council had to line up and all take a punch, but they drew the line at that. Maybe next time.