At 11:32 AM 6/23/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>According to the article in the Arizona Repugnant...uh...Republic
>yesterday (please consider the source), the Mount Lemmon Cafe was not
>destroyed by the fire. The article stated that they lost the roof to the
>patio and the plastic furniture melted but otherwise it made it
>through. Hopefully we'll be able to have pies there this winter after
>all! The Lodge next door was a total loss. Nothing but two feet of
>rubble remains.
It will be interesting to see what happens as a fallout of all this. I
have seen some stories where Pima County says that they will make it
tougher for the businesses to rebuild. There are problems with building
codes, endangered species and ridge/summit codes down here. I have heard
that the Forest Service has really been dragging it's feet on allowing
people to rebuild their cabins. Instead of 99 year leases for the land
they will only offer 20 year leases and people can't get mortgages to build
on land that they do not own. From what I have read, the FS has yet to
issue a permit in California to rebuild any cabins from fires over the last
few years.
Only time will tell what happens up there, but the one thing that I think
we can be sure of is that the mountain will never be the same.
Scott
scott@myblueheaven.com
www.myblueheaven.com
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