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Supreme Court Will Determine When Cities May Seize Private Land

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Posted by Steve 2004-09-28 12:10:43 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The New York Times is not 'public use' either.

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-09-28 1:04:31 PM|| 2004-09-28 1:04:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I dunno, CrazyFool. I suspect a lot of bums and pet birds use it quite effectively.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-09-28 1:07:17 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-09-28 1:07:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 as a local gov't engineer, doing roads and bridges, we often need to acquire private property for right-of-way. Eminent domain is the last option we want to use. It adds cost, time, attorneys and litigation. Better to reach a negotiated settlement on a mutually-acceptable appraisal. If you acquire the property via ED, there is a time limit (7 yrs?) to build your project or the property can revert to the private owner. The use of ED by local gov'ts to secure large chunks of property for "redevelopment" - i.e. tax base increment - is a bastardization of the reason ED was created

Posted by Frank G 2004-09-28 1:15:14 PM|| 2004-09-28 1:15:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Seizure of property by ED then using it for business development is just WRONG. If the businesses want the property, they can PURCHASE it for whatever the property owner is willing to sell it for. If the cities think they need the property for tax base development... THEY can pay for it too.

This assumption that the city is "justified" in stealing property for the "greater good" is a crock.

Posted by Leigh 2004-09-28 3:20:58 PM|| 2004-09-28 3:20:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Frank G, socialist by day, mind numbed robot by night.

Posted by Shipman 2004-09-28 3:59:14 PM|| 2004-09-28 3:59:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Watch it Ship, he's a Pusher robot...

Posted by .com 2004-09-28 4:02:26 PM|| 2004-09-28 4:02:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Once upon a time I believed that private property rights still existed in this nation ... then I went to law school. I fully expect the S.Ct. to find that it's perfectly acceptable for private property to be seized by governments and given to preferred private entities. Oh sure there'll be weasel-words about "necessity" or "blight" or something similar but the legal standards in the several states will develop in such a way that these won't present any real barrier to government action.

Posted by AzCat 2004-09-28 5:20:24 PM|| 2004-09-28 5:20:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Got that one already PD, sent it to YUT 2 in New Orleans, he he frightened that I see such things.

Posted by Shipman 2004-09-28 5:33:16 PM|| 2004-09-28 5:33:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 my ex musta told ya about the "mind-numbed robot by night" thing, huh? I blame ~~Bush~~ Tequila LOL. Socialist? I don't think so.....

Posted by Frank G 2004-09-28 5:44:48 PM|| 2004-09-28 5:44:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Mr. G. I stand for privatized bridges, turnstiles and the use of highwaymen in leiu highwaypatrol. We don't need bridges! We need high speed ferrys, but only San Fransisco has a clue.

(local bridge to barrier island pretty much condemned for salt water intrustion thru inspection plates..... crumbling cement.)

Posted by Shipman 2004-09-28 6:26:32 PM|| 2004-09-28 6:26:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 The city of Scotsdale(burb of Phoenix) tried this crap on the owner of a garage that had been a family buisness for 3 generations.Scotsdale wanted to sell the land to Mienike(another garage for Christ's sake).The city lost.

Posted by Raptor 2004-09-28 7:39:34 PM|| 2004-09-28 7:39:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 The Bill of Rights should have included a stronger clause protecting private property from the hands of government. There is *never* valid cause to seize private property.

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2004-09-28 11:31:13 PM|| [http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/categories/currentEvents/] 2004-09-28 11:31:13 PM|| Front Page Top

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