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Surveyor stands behind location of benchmark
BY JANET MCQUEEN
Sixty of Lucien Raymond?s 82 years have been spent as a surveyor. The last 40 of those have been in Hancock County.
He feels quite strongly about the accuracy of a City of Bay St. Louis survey currently disputed by property owners on 10th and Longfellow Streets.
?Anyone who cares to contest the location of that stone monument (the benchmark for the northeast comer of the subdivision), I?ll gladly see them in chancery court.
?When you have the truth on your side, it takes alot to beat it,? he said.
He feels city attorney John Scafide?s $5,000-$ 10,000 price tag estimate for settling the matter in court is ?grossly exaggerated? and has offered his services at no charge to the city.
An ordinance proposed at the April 3 city council meeting which would have allowed the council to abandon part of the city?s right-of-way on 10th Street to Charles Delk, owner of ABC Rental, failed.
Council President John Wilkerson, who voted against abandoning the right-of-way said ?I am not for giving away the city?s property. It belongs to the taxpayers.?
The property in question includes an asphalt traffic strip paved (by the City of Bay St. Louis) off-center of Tenth Street to the advantage of ABC Rental, according to Raymond.
?Properties on the opposite (south) side of the street are disadvantaged,? he said, and claims no surveyors disagree with his location of Tenth Street.
ABC Rental owner Charles Delk would like an
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official decision on the matter.
?I would like the city council to take som action and make public whatever they intend t do about the problem.
?I have requested a copy of the city plat of th area and am waiting to receive it,? he said. H expressed concern about the buying and sellin of real estate in the area until the matter settled.
The city council meets next on May 8.