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Mt. Vintage Development deadline on infrastructure security running out web posted February 20, 2009 EDGEFIELD – The time for Mt. Vintage Development to produce the requested bond or security for the completion of the infrastructure on the “New Nine” runs out this weekend. Edgefield County Administrator John Pettigrew said the county has received no reply from Mt. Vintage Development. Shortly after the county council voted to request the bond or security a letter was sent to Mr. Rainsford with a fifteen-day time limit, “and I believe the fifteen days is up this weekend,” Mr. Pettigrew said. In the letter was a request for a final plat that contained the infrastructure that was completed and that which has not been completed and the security for the incomplete work. With another deadline given by the county passing with no response from Mr. Rainsford or Mt. Vintage Development, the question of what the county would do next had to be asked. “I don’t know,” Mr. Pettigrew said. Pettigrew said the county was in discussions and trying to sort out their options. The issue came to light at the January 6 county council meeting when homeowner Dennis Brite alleged Bettis Rainsford had broken the county’s laws on development 139 times. After an extensive debate County Council Chairman Monroe Kneece said he wanted to hear back from Mr. Brite in two weeks and expected Mr. Rainsford to make progress. A special called meeting of the county council was scheduled when that deadline passed and it was cancelled at the last minute and gave Mt. Vintage Development and extra two weeks. The issue then reappeared at the February 3 meeting with Mr. Rainsford auspiciously missing when he was expected to answer the county council’s questions. Pointed out in the meeting was the gravity of the situation at Mt. Vintage as the list of a more than $600,000 lien, a pending foreclosure of nearly $10 million in loans by the bank, and a new lawsuit filed the day of the meeting naming the county as a defendant were read off by Mr. Brite. Others from Mt. Vintage insinuated they were considering legal actions as well. With all the talk of lawsuits and litigations, County Councilwoman Genia Blackwell motioned to go into executive sessions to garner legal advice before continuing the open meeting. Once Chairman Kneece reconvened the meeting in public the county council voted to request the bond or security required by the subdivision ordinance for the completion of the infrastructure. In reality the county is no closer to a resolution to the problem than they were in January and, according to County Administrator John Pettigrew, they do not have a roadmap to how they are going to resolve it. According to information out of Mt. Vintage, there are meetings taking place by the affected property owners and they may grow weary of the empty deadlines set by the county council a lot quicker than they did of the empty promised claimed by Mr. Rainsford since 2006. One thing for certain is the issue will be in the forefront of those discussed next month at the March 3 meeting and there will no doubt be a packed room to hear what takes place. © Copyright 2009
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