The Aikens Legacy
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The Aikens Legacy
| Lenoir City mayor, Tony Aikens has publically
announced this will be his last term as mayor. That means another 4
years of the same failed policies Lenoir City has had to deal with for
the last 14 years. Higher taxes, Rain Tax, dirty deeds, illegal
annexations, illegal land giveaways mass over development, etc. There's
some talk that he may not even stay the full 4 years, that he might have
his eye on a Nashville job of some kind under the next governor. Who
knows? But the fact of the matter is whether Aikens in office one more
year or ten more years, the damage he has already caused the city and
the county can not be undone.
Below are just two examples, The Villas at 321 corner of Hwy 321 and Hwy 70 and the apartments beside Food City, of absurd developments that should never have been allowed but unfortunately, they're there now and will be forever more. These two developments represent just 442 of the thousands of apartments and residential properties that have already been approved in the last three years by the mayor and council. The mayor and council have made much ado about the recently passed apartment moratorium as though that would make some major difference in what already is. The moratorium came about about three years too late. Just imagine what all this rental property will look like in the next five years or so. Sadly, we'll all have to live with the disaster Aikens and his council have wrought on the city forever.
Click Here For Apartment Prospectus (The prospectus was written when the plan was still 300 apartments.) |
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