Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Boundaries through urban areas
Date: Nov 07, 2003 @ 20:56
Author: Lowell G. McManus ("Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@...>)
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From: "acroorca2002" <orc@...>
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Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 9:44 AM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Boundaries through urban areas
> many thanxxx
> & comments intertwingled
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
> <mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> > Attached (and also at www.mexlist.com/bp/bcjc.jpg ) is an aerial
> photo map that
> > I have made to show the Bi-state Criminal Justice Center
> condominium.
> >
> > The placement of the boundary around the condominium is predicated
> upon the
> > statement in the compact that it embodies "the plant and
> facilities" of the
> > BCJC. My interpretation is that this includes the property on
> which the
> > building is situated.
>
> good
> i agree
> & this means the tripoints can be made without having to even visit
> the er plant
>
> From my on-site observations, that property appears to be
> > three-quarters of the city block, the remaining quarter being
> occupied by a
> > tall, slim, boarded-up old hotel building. The divided building
> across Front
> > Street south of the BCJC is the railroad station. North of the
> BCJC, the
> > boundary is shown correctly as it crosses the corner of the
> sidewalks at the
> > corner of Pine and Broad Streets.
> >
> > Before the BCJC was built, State Line Avenue continued through the
> block on
> > which it sits--even with the corner of the block to the north
> jutting into it as
> > it does. State Line Avenue ended into Front Street in front of the
> railroad
> > station by the east corner of the tall old hotel. The main
> uncertainty in my
> > mind is whether the right-of-way of the former State Line Avenue
> might have been
> > included in the BCJC property. If that is the case, then the
> boundary between
> > Arkansas and the condominium along the edge of Front Street would
> extend all the
> > way to the ARTX boundary near the corner of the tall old hotel
> instead of
> > jutting northwestward to an acute angle. It would probably take a
> search of
> > local cadastral records to answer this question and definitively
> place the
> > tripoint.
>
> both tripoints might however be probed for in the street first
> just to see what factors might be at issue
>
> but before that
> i would like to find out whether the federal congress has ever
> ratified this agreement
>
> because if not
> & insofar as the compact alters the character & location of the state
> line
> then it is not yet constitutionally legal
>
> in which case the artx state line has never really legally moved an
> inch
> nor opened up to admit this common territory in its midst
> nor produced in fact these arartxtxn & arartxtxs condo tripoints
>
>
> Therefore, my map is an approximation.
> >
> > Lowell G. McManus
> > Leesville, Louisiana, USA