--- In [email protected], Peter Sutphen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- sparaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > snip > > > > > What do you think of the new Supreme Court ruling > > that allows local governments to buy > > out private landowners in order to allow some OTHER > > private land owner to build a > > business park? > > A little scary. It's also happening here in Hollywood > Florida where an owner will not sell four commercial > properties to a developer who wants to put up a 19 > story condo. The town is thinking of using "eminent > domain" to force the sale. There's something very > un-American and anti private property in this. > Greedy, driven by pure old greed. Similar thing here in Santa Clara California with the city holding public meetings on 17 acres of open space surplused by UC-Davis, overwhelming public consensus is to keep it open space, but money has changed hands under several tables and now the city council through the state legislature is trying to change the law to develop lots of houses on it. This costs the citizens money in terms of taxes paid vs services provided, but provides political gain to council members, and $$$ benefit to developers.
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