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Friday, May 05, 2006

San Diego - Give Away The Cross!

Okay - so now the Cross must come down? What can the city of San Diego do to resolve this lawsuit?

Regional Talk - Voice of San Diego:
Take down the Mount Soledad Cross within the next 90 days, or the city of San Diego will be fined $5,000 a day for every day the monument remains on city land. That was the stark message delivered by U.S. District Judge Gordon Thompson, Jr. on Wednesday.


My solution for the citizens and government of San Diego is simple, easy to do and solves all the problems.

GIVE AWAY OR SELL THE LAND AND AN AREA SURROUNDING THE CROSS, THEREBY REMOVING YOURSELF FROM OWNERSHIP - PROBLEM SOLVED!

Having not visited the land, I do not know the approximate land mass needing to be removed from public government ownership. Surely no more than an acre would be required, right?

The land could be sold - or donated - to a non-public entitity who would "provide for the maintenance and upkeep of the land and the existing structures on the land." Failure to comply would result in the land and said structures returning to the city for immediate resale.

There could also be numerous restriction implemented in the deeding of the property, to prevent any further development of the land, tying it down completely so as to discourage the use of the land for anything other than the display of the cross.

No doubt you could even preclude resale of the property for X number of years.

IMHO its time to get the city's real estate attorneys busy drafting the sale document and let the bidding begin!

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