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Post by CMF Newsman on Jul 9, 2009 10:48:16 GMT -5
Attorney Arnold Stulce, who represents range Ronnie Dodd, owner of a controversial shooting range in Sale Creek, told the Hamilton County Commission this morning that if the commission and the Zoning Appeals Board attempted to reconsider their original approval of the range, that he would initiate legal action against the county. At issue is whether or not the appeals board had all the information about what Dodd had intended to do with the Sale Creek property. Comissioner Fred Skillern feels that they did not, while Stulce maintains that all the information was presented properly. County Attorney Rheubin Taylor told the commissioner that there is no precedent on reconsidering zoning appeals once they are approved, and agreed that the county could indeed be opening itself up to legal action if they retroactively denied the zoning for the range. chattanoogapulse.com/newsfeatures/breaking-news/continued-debate-about-sale-creek-shooting-range/ |
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Post by Justin Thyme on Jul 9, 2009 10:59:53 GMT -5
I guess it's up to the adjacent property owners who are finding shrapnel from the range on their property to attempt to get a restraining order.
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Post by goomba on Jul 9, 2009 20:03:10 GMT -5
finding shrapnel on ones property does not convince me that the range is dangerous. Now, if they can prove to me with science then, I'll re-think my opinions on this subject.
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Post by Justin Thyme on Jul 10, 2009 7:33:54 GMT -5
From my understanding range personnel have told adjoining property owners to stay away from the boundaries during certain events. Evidently the range personnel felt that there was a danger to people who might be on property not owned by the range or they wouldn't have told them to stay off their own property. If this is the case then the property owners are the ones who should be protesting the continued use of the range on grounds of safety.
ETA: If nothing else the shrapnel is evidence of littering, similar to a neighbor dumping beer cans over the fence. I think it is entirely reasonable for the range's neighbors to request that the littering cease.
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Post by ohwell on Jul 18, 2009 16:43:26 GMT -5
I'm sorry. Did the property owners not know there was a shooting range there?  ? Its my understanding that, maybe, they should have thought twice. Quit your bitching. There is a right to shoot. Maybe some day, when a robber breaks in your house, that you might wish one of those shooters was their to protect you.l |
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Post by dvc on Jul 18, 2009 17:51:32 GMT -5
The property owners lived there before Dodd moved in and built his range.He was less than truthful about the intended use of the range.He stated on the application it would be "low impact" WTF that means but he stated the range would be for instructional use.He now has 2 matches a month there and had also planned a major IDPA Regional match that he cancelled because of the ruckus.Bullet fragments that splatter from steel targets have been found on the adjacent property as well.He had a chance to buy some property just down the road from Cleveland Rifle Club that would have been a far better choice IMO.
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Post by creekcat62 on Jul 18, 2009 23:50:44 GMT -5
Take a drive up Leggett road and look for his sign. Then you will question why it was allowed?
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Post by gridbug on Jul 21, 2009 6:54:14 GMT -5
22s are pop-guns and easily ignored. Now that 50... That would have gotten the neighbors attention!  If I find one of those shooters is in my house with a gun then they are the robber. |
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Post by ohwell on Jul 23, 2009 19:33:07 GMT -5
Its my understanding that the shooting range at Montlake was in operation several years before any houses were built in the area. It was only after the new owners bought the range that people started to complain. I have shot there. If the neighbors don't like it - tough. They should have thought about that before they bought. You don't buy a house to change everything in the neigborhood.
The range on Hunter Road is still open. I'm not sure about the one in Lafayette, GA. I understand it has been greatly improved, but used for police.
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Post by daworm on Jul 23, 2009 22:39:18 GMT -5
Tell that to the assholes who shut down the Sand Bar.
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Post by mikeydokey on Jul 26, 2009 19:23:15 GMT -5
Shouldn't a gaybate go to the gaybate lounge? Is there a reason this wasn't started in the gaybate lounge?
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Post by mikeydokey on Jul 26, 2009 19:28:15 GMT -5
DAMN GAYBATE ABOUT FIREARMS IN GENERAL DISCUSSION! You people have a firearms section and you have a gaybate section!!! Just because we no longer have a general discussion section moderator anymore gives you people no right to move and place gaybates about firearms to any thread you want to. MOVE THIS TO THE GAYBATE FORUM OR THE FIREARMS SECTION!!!
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Post by JC on Jul 26, 2009 20:42:08 GMT -5
You people! What do you mean by "you people"?  |
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Post by gridbug on Jul 27, 2009 11:52:14 GMT -5
Tell that to the assholes who shut down the Sand Bar. It is OK if the neighborhood in question is wealthy & influential enough. |
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