State proposal would let Sheraton keep easement on river

The state has a proposal would allow the Sheraton hotel to keep its contested easement to the Trent River - and New Bern aldermen agreed Tuesday night to support the proposal.

[concerned]

The test will be to show that the conveance of the boat slips to private individuals is in the public interest

[concerned]

Everyone has always said that the Soleil Group was entitled to “run” the “marina.” The point to be hammered is: can an individual “own” the riparian rights to the State owned submerged lands under those waters their without also “owning” the shoreline? Does the banking system recognize what is going on here? You would think that the Federal banking regulators would take a dim view on bankers who lent money with these boat slips as collateral after the recent and ongoing turmoil in their industry. Has anyone called them yet? And the stockholders would probably want to replace their board of directors if they knew that their money was being used to finance such dealings. So they need a phone call too! Why does the Soleil Group recommend financing through the specific banks they mention in the financing section of their Boat Slips for Sale website? Is it possible that they are “involved’ with these particular banks? Take a look…it is very interesting. And did the Attorney General allow a fellow law school classmate of the Soleil Group lawyer to “handle” this case? Absolutely! Did that lawyer deal with the deception that his classmate pulled on the State Property Officer??????? Should he have?????? Does Roy Cooper know this????? Why won’t the Attorney General’s office return calls to the Sun Journal relating to this matter? Who is Troy Smith??????

[Chill]

Here we go again with those wild eyed alarmish that the sky is falling. The issue is access to some nice boat slips, that by the way were built by the developer. That means that boaters will become New Bern tax payers, will be spending money at our downtown business, who by the way are in favor of this transaction. Or maybe we should avoid progress and change so that no one benefits, no increase in tax base, no support of downtown New Bern merchants. No, I'm not connected to any of these businesses. But I do live in New and not SC...

concerned wrote:

Everyone has always said that the Soleil Group was entitled to “run” the “marina.” The point to be hammered is: can an individual “own” the riparian rights to the State owned submerged lands under those waters their without also “owning” the shoreline? Does the banking system recognize what is going on here? You would think that the Federal banking regulators would take a dim view on bankers who lent money with these boat slips as collateral after the recent and ongoing turmoil in their industry. Has anyone called them yet? And the stockholders would probably want to replace their board of directors if they knew that their money was being used to finance such dealings. So they need a phone call too! Why does the Soleil Group recommend financing through the specific banks they mention in the financing section of their Boat Slips for Sale website? Is it possible that they are “involved’ with these particular banks? Take a look…it is very interesting. And did the Attorney General allow a fellow law school classmate of the Soleil Group lawyer to “handle” this case? Absolutely! Did that lawyer deal with the deception that his classmate pulled on the State Property Officer??????? Should he have?????? Does Roy Cooper know this????? Why won’t the Attorney General’s office return calls to the Sun Journal relating to this matter? Who is Troy Smith??????