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Resident alleges St. Louis County improperly treated private land as tax-forfeited, raises cartway dispute at public listening session
Summary
At a Jan. 2026 public listening session, resident Chester Cohen alleged county attorney Barb Ross claimed a 50-foot strip of his property was tax-forfeited without supporting records and criticized a cartway hearing that he said favored a neighboring family; no county official responded during the session.
Chester Cohen, a resident who spoke at St. Louis County’s first public listening session of 2026, alleged that county officials wrongly treated a strip of his private land as tax-forfeited and that the county’s cartway process improperly favored a neighboring family.
Cohen told the meeting he had asked the board to watch an 18-minute video and said "county attorney, Barb Ross, inappropriately claimed a 50 foot strip of land as tax state tax forfeited property," adding the county presented no records showing state ownership. He said the evidence he…
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