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Resident Justin accuses St. Louis County of illegal taking, requests investigation
Summary
A resident identified as Justin used public comment to accuse St. Louis County of an "illegal taking," alleging the county ignored notification requirements, relied on misleading evidence in court, and failed to provide maintenance-of-road documentation; he asked the board to investigate a dispute he said has lasted about seven years.
A resident identified verbally as Justin used the meeting's public-comment slot to accuse St. Louis County government of an "illegal taking" of his property and to ask the board to investigate.
"I have been coming here time and time again explaining my grievance with the illegal taking of our property," Justin said, accusing the county of ignoring notification requirements and "intentionally manipulated the facts of the case." He urged county representatives to "call out fraud when the evidence has been brought to your attention."
Justin said the county attorney's office "wouldn't provide evidence for their maintenance of the road because there isn't any," and claimed the county "was aware of the fill that was from trespass activity and disrupting the normal conveyance of water." He also named an individual, saying that "John Hutchinson's had slab wood dumped" along the property border; in the transcript the speaker linked that dumping to a sawmill operation.
He described a long-running dispute, saying he has raised the matter for about seven years and asking the board to use its authority to investigate what went wrong. At one point he referred to the personal financial impact of the issue, saying that, had the road existed, he and his wife would not have spent money now totaling "60 something grand" (approximate, per the speaker).
The transcript records no response from county staff or the county attorney during this public-comment segment, and no formal motion or investigation directive appears in the meeting record provided. Justin concluded his remarks and the moderator thanked speakers; there is no record here of follow-up action taken at that meeting.
Because the remarks are allegations made by a resident during public comment and no county response appears in the transcript, the claims remain disputed or unresolved in this record.
