Fore! Trump golf course faces hazards

Trump has built some of the finest courses in the world including a links on the highly regulated east coast of Scotland overlooking the North Sea. He has the experience, the money, and people like Ben Crenshaw. Mrs Kluge's ex-front yard would make a glorious golf course.

"Golf courses and cemeteries...terrible wastes of real estate."

I hear it may be approved if Sunday is set aside for free golf day for the downtown mall crowd.

Gus Dudgeon died?

I am torn about this. I hate Trump and everything he does and refuse to go to his vineyard. However, this will be a world class golf course that I would love to play. Additionally, the golf course would undoubtedly attract more tourist dollars to C'ville and raise the profile of our city even more (which I guess could be a bad thing as well).

Here's the key sentence in this article about Donald "Clown" Trump:

"The 217-acre parcel is beside another 745 acres held by Trump Vineyard Estates, also under conservation easement to the Virginia Outdoors Foundation."

ClownBoy wants to build a golf course on the 217 acres. That land is under conservation easement with the Virginia Outdoors Foundation. As is Trump's winery. Maybe the golf course will get built, maybe it won't.

But what's certain, is that the Virginia Outdoors Foundation (VOF) and its conservation easements are beneficial primarily to those with a lot of money. The Foundation says that land owners can "offset their own state income tax liability" and can "receive some cash flow by selling their unused credits." And that's in addition to federal tax credits and reduced assessments of the land by local governments. In other words, the easements generate LARGE taxpayer subsidies for the rich.

The VOF likes to say that there is a "public good" that comes form its easements. But the public rarely (if ever) gains any access to the properties covered by the easements. Mostly the "public good" boils down to what the VOF calls "scenic vistas."

Many of the properties under easements are "estates." Those who buy these properties have no intention whatsoever of developing them; that diminishes the purpose of owning a landed estate. And in many cases, the land cannot be developed anyway due to zoning restrictions, as is is the case with the Trump parcel discussed here.

In other instances, the conservation easement is just a front. Such is the case with the Trump winery, which is a commercial business. Consider. Trump bought a buch of parcels for more than $7.5 million. But go toe the county land records, and you can find one parcel of 81.10 acres assessed at only $224,000, and another 94 acre parcel assessed at only $38,000, and a 144.41 acre parcel assessed at $60,400, and a 85.65 parcel assessed at just $17,300. All of them are under easement to the VOF. And was we know, ClownBoy has plenty of cash.

Meanwhile, a .05 acre parcel of land (land only) that has a townhouse on it is assessed at $55,000. Or, a 0.7 acre parcel of land in Foxchase is assessed at $170,000. Or, a 0.25 acre parcel of land in Grayrock is assessed at $90,000. Or, a 0.39 parcel of land in Mil Creek is also assessed at $90,000.

Warren Buffet was right. As he said, "there’s been class warfare going on for the last 20 years, and my class has won...there’s class warfare, the rich class has won."

And the Virginia Outdoors Foundation is happy to assist.

I hope that if the Golf course is approved and built that part of the deal is road improvement. The road from from Rt. 20S around Carter's bridge to the winery/golf course is narrow and dangerous. The other way to get to the winery/golf course is by Rt. 53/Rt.795. Both directions have narrow and crooked roads that cannot safely handle more traffic than what they do now. I would welcome the safer roads (wider and straighter).

@Just Saying...he died indeed. 10-50 in Britain; wife was with him but I think she survived.

R.I.P.: Marc Bolan

Greenie
Fifteen to twenty jobs are better than zero, better than another pasture with a handful of cows. This area needs jobs in case you did not notice.

Instead of bashing Trump, how about reporting news. Ever since we got a new editor at the Hook we have seen little if any reporting on UVA. How much advertising does it take to keep UVA out of the news? My assertions in the past that UVA literally owns the entire town is not a stretch. Why must we read stuff about 2 UVA students in the Daily Mail? I guess these two students were so used to getting away with anything in their home town of Cville that it was a real shock to be arrested. The Police in C'ville turn a blind eye to anything when it comes to UVA students so these duffies think that's how it works everywhere else!!!!!!!!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2324466/Couple-arrested-naked-be...

democracy, do you really believe Warren Buffet's being sincere when he says "my class won" as if he's a member of the rich class? I've tried to explain this to you before. Can't you see he carefully crafts his public statements to pit public sentiment against "the rich" (people with a big house, two or more new cars, maybe a beachfront property) when he as a member of an entirely different and incredibly smaller class known as the "mega rich", (made up a few hundred individuals consolidating and partnering to expand control and profit, although even they compete with each other). He says he doesn't pay enough taxes, he needs to pay more taxes. His corporations of course will have a waiver written by his lawyers and passed by his legislators, judges, and executives, he knows full well that he will never pay a penny of those taxes he says he "needs to pay more of", they will simply drive his competition who don't have the waivers out of business for him to buy up, and prevent the upper eschelon of "the rich" class like Trump (not that he's the greatest poster boy but he's a hell of a lot better than Buffet) from ever becoming rich enough to threaten his monopoly. There is no candidacy whatsoever to anything this slimebag says that's meant for your ear. The only time you'll hear a sincere word out of Warren Buffet's mouth is when he's laughing demonically with his Bohemian Grove friends about how beautiful is to sacrifice children to Molek and poison the American public to reduce their numbers and sterilize their offspring and how mischeivously delightful it is to never be punished for it.

I looked it up, FBO stands for Fixed Base Operator in Moe's comment. In other words an entirely seperate entity (compartmentalization) than the airline, pilot, runway crew, or flight crew. In other words, the FBO's could be mixing aluminum, titanium, barium oxides, medical waste, prozac, nanoparticulates, etc. into the fuel that propel's the jets on Trumps Learjet to be sprayed into the atmosphere via the exhaust, and neither Trump, the pilot, the airline, flight crew nor runway crew would have any say so about it or any knowledge of it, and consequently no reservations or misgivings about it either. In other words the whole operation would be fixed by headquarters, (or base, if you will)