kking
Junior Member
Hello everyone. So Ive got a few places Im interested in detecting around town and have researched the property ownership and collected contact information. (Addresses only at this time)
A couple properties are owned by the City, and a couple others that are owned by property management/development companies with offices in other cities.
Knowing that my local City has a policy on metal detecting that states you can detect their city parks but not dig, what would a good tactic be on trying to get permission to detect the grounds at a city owned property?
Also, any suggestions for contacting the property management companies about detecting on their vacant, unused, properties?
Info about the properties:
One city owned property used to be an early library from the early 1900s where people used to gather. The building is still there but not used as a library anymore. I figure the grounds around this building and trees may be interesting. Another city owned property is a barren corner outside the city limits that has a very old dilapidated house and small barn structure that is about fallen to the ground. A 1/4 mile away on this property is a city treatment facility but this corner with the old house is abandoned, ignored and has my interest.
One of the properties owned by out of town interests are two corner lots that have been vacant since Ive moved here in 2000. They keep them mowed but dont show any signs of survey or plans to develop. In looking at old maps, there used to be a clay pit and brick yard across the street and some houses on these lots that are long gone. There are signs of what appear to be a silo footprint still showing in the ground.
The other property is a long stretch of vacant dirt fields for my housing development. It seems to be where they dumped a lot of the dirt removed to cut in our housing tracts. The same developer still owns these plots of land but they are barren and vacant. My kids call them the "dirt hills" and they dont show any signs of future development. Dont know what I could find there but it is close to my home and if I could get permission, it would give me a place to tinker around that was close by.
Thoughts?
A couple properties are owned by the City, and a couple others that are owned by property management/development companies with offices in other cities.
Knowing that my local City has a policy on metal detecting that states you can detect their city parks but not dig, what would a good tactic be on trying to get permission to detect the grounds at a city owned property?
Also, any suggestions for contacting the property management companies about detecting on their vacant, unused, properties?
Info about the properties:
One city owned property used to be an early library from the early 1900s where people used to gather. The building is still there but not used as a library anymore. I figure the grounds around this building and trees may be interesting. Another city owned property is a barren corner outside the city limits that has a very old dilapidated house and small barn structure that is about fallen to the ground. A 1/4 mile away on this property is a city treatment facility but this corner with the old house is abandoned, ignored and has my interest.
One of the properties owned by out of town interests are two corner lots that have been vacant since Ive moved here in 2000. They keep them mowed but dont show any signs of survey or plans to develop. In looking at old maps, there used to be a clay pit and brick yard across the street and some houses on these lots that are long gone. There are signs of what appear to be a silo footprint still showing in the ground.
The other property is a long stretch of vacant dirt fields for my housing development. It seems to be where they dumped a lot of the dirt removed to cut in our housing tracts. The same developer still owns these plots of land but they are barren and vacant. My kids call them the "dirt hills" and they dont show any signs of future development. Dont know what I could find there but it is close to my home and if I could get permission, it would give me a place to tinker around that was close by.
Thoughts?