When city planners attack
The latest potential victim of eminent domain abuse:
The City of Mansfield wants to build a 100-acre project that will include retail shops, upscale apartments and a baseball complex.
To complete the project, the city wants two acres of Wanda Allen’s property.
Again, we have a city taking from one private individual to give to another. The article contains this snippet:
Eminent domain allows a government entity to convert private land to public land with reasonable compensation to the landowner.
There is also the important criteria of public use.
November 4th, 2004 at 9:03 pm
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Wanda Allen Update
|By SayUncle|
Wanda Allen, who I mentioned here, gets to keep all of her property: State law allows cities to acqui […]
October 28th, 2004 at 12:57 pm
Murder. Death. Kill.
The threat of eminent domain is one damned good reason to keep your guns.
I fear a developer state as much as some folks fear a nanny state. The developers have far more friends in high places than the would-be social engineers do (if you exclude the Christian social engineers).
Once we’ve destroyed the kleptocrats, I’ll go after the nannies with a vengeance.