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Some Newtown, Connecticut residents say in a new survey that they want the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter's home torn down and the property turned into a park or nature preserve.
The Newtown-Sandy Hook Community Foundation received more than 1,600 responses to the survey it released on Monday on town residents' unmet needs in the wake of the December 2012 shootings. The foundation has been deciding how to distribute more than $11 million in donations made in response to the shootings, which left 20 first-graders and six educators dead.
Some survey responses said money should be set aside to tear down gunman Adam Lanza's house in Newtown, where he killed his mother before going to the school.
There were numerous (369) written ‘other responses’.
FlyersFan
While I agree with taking down the school and building a new one elsewhere .. for the mental health of the students ... I really don't think it's up to the town to decide what to do with the home of the shooter. Doesn't a bank own it? Or the family of the shooters mother? It was her house.
I could be wrong but I don't think the town owns it.
And if they don't own it ... they have no say in what happens with it.
neo96
Under 'Eminent domain '
The state can do whatever the hell it wants to with property, and declare it for the 'public benefit'.
Doesn't matter who owns it.
The state owns all land in this country which is why everyone has to pay them extortion fees called property taxes.
FlyersFan
While I agree with taking down the school and building a new one elsewhere .. for the mental health of the students ... I really don't think it's up to the town to decide what to do with the home of the shooter. Doesn't a bank own it? Or the family of the shooters mother? It was her house.
I could be wrong but I don't think the town owns it.
And if they don't own it ... they have no say in what happens with it.
Chamberf=6
This makes me wonder about the guy who held the three girls for over a decade (Castro (?) ).
His home was torn down and made into a park.
He had other family and I don't know the particulars of mortgages or anything, but it does make me wonder now what the legal reason for doing that was?
It strikes me as really odd
Zarniwoop
reply to post by NickDC202
It strikes me as really odd
If you read the report, it's not very odd at all. It's a committee that manages the fund that was set up for undesignated financial donations. They are responsible for soliciting community input regarding what to do with those funds. So, they did a survey and a few people submitted the house thing as an idea.
I doubt that they will act on it. Particularly because making a park out of it would require funding well beyond when the fund dries out. Although, I'm guessing whoever owns the property would dump it readily.
NickDC202
I mean the Amityville Horror house on Long Island continues to be occupied (there have been a number of owners since the Defeo family was killed and it's allegedly haunted) so why tear down the Lanza home?