MADISON, Miss. ( WJTV ) – Residents in the Town of Lost Rabbit in Madison County are fighting to preserve a neighborhood green space.
Last month, members of the Lost Rabbit HOA met with the Shoreline Development Committee of the Pearl River Valley Water Supply District. They urged the panel to reject any development proposals for the greenspace.
Lost Rabbit residents fight to keep green space
Some developers hope to build four single-family homes in the area that neighbors call Shoreline Park.
“We felt good coming in. The attorney said a lot of things about what has happened in the past. We know what they said moving forward, that all this land was green space, and they presented it in print advertising, media advertising, and this is how they’re selling it. And based on where you live, the closer you get to the water, the more expensive the land. And they sold it based on that, that we’d always had this green space. So, you devalue the land and everyone’s property by taking that away,” said Thomas Carrigan, who lives in the Town of Lost Rabbit…