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In 2004, Chet Hitt received a phone call that the Topock Marina where his family had their vacation home had been sold to a developer. Chet immediately drove to Topock to discuss the developer's plans for the Marina. When he asked the new buyer for a long term lease, he was told that the Park was to be demolished to make way for a Private Marina and Condominium Complex. Obviously, this was bad news for Chet and the rest of the folks living in the Park. The next morning Chet saw the Developer in the Restaurant, and again asked for a long term lease. He was shocked and angered by the response. "Didn't you #%$&ing hear me?" he was told, "I'm #%$&ing kicking all of you out and tearing the place down and I'm moving into your house!"... After the project had been cleared by Mohave County Building & Safety, Arizona Fish & Game and the Army Corps of Engineers, FEMA determined that a portion of the project fell within a federally recognized flood plain. What followed was two years of re-..

Primary location: Topock United States