From the Email InBox: Shell Game or Sinking Sub

Dear Gramps: Please Post.

Shell Game? or Sinking Subs? Regarding the Building of a Shell Station where it will be CalTrans Take Over.

Why Build in a Place the Freeway Construction will cause a marginal business to move?

Well here is the point in the exercise. Neither the City Planning Department, nor Cal Trans acted soon enough to stop the investment and building of a gas station that will be closed by the Eminent Domain Process which will include added expense of an existing and operating business.

This is a rip off of the California Tax Payer. The City of Grand Terrace will gain a few dollars of tax income from the businesses until the land is eventually condemned by CalTrans. CalTrans has failed in cost containment. The City of Grand Terrace floating plans for development along the frontage of the freeway is similar gamble. As a Tax Payer in California I resent this short sidedness, I will not go to the new Shell station or any New Business along the freeway as my own personal protest to such actions. NOTHING of a PERMANT Nature should be allowed to be built along the freeway.