Posted on 11/21/2016 9:39:47 AM PST by Kaslin
Somebody has a case of the Mondays.
Ummmmm, yeah,........I'm gonna need you to stay after 5 pm......................
I actually spent a day in Carver last month. The Edaville amusement park is or was a small old school little place out in the sticks with a gravel parking lot, but as of August of last year, they now have the one and only “Thomasland” amusement park in the work, all dedicated to Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends, much to the delight of my 4-year-old son! Would hate to see the town ruined like this . . .
Title here doesn’t match the article at Townhall (”Eminent Injustice in Cranberry Country”) and seems to be for a different article?
LOL, Office Space and The Holy Grail have a lot in common when it comes to mentioning references to them on threads...:)
I noticed that! But Jeff Jacoby is a good read...
This is not what Eminent Domain was for. On the other hand, for the company to make private and very lucrative offers, that’s fine.
We’ll give you a million dollars for your $300,000 piece of land. Where do I sign?
This is a liberal decision playing out in a liberal utopia.
From the linked article about the Kelo decision: "But five justices John Paul Stevens, Steven Breyer, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Anthony Kennedy decided otherwise." Kelo is a RAT policy.
From the article itself: "If anything good came of Kelo, it was the furious nationwide backlash, which led a number of states Massachusetts, unfortunately not among them to pass new laws protecting property owners from abusive eminent-domain takings." Care to take a guess as to the party in charge where those protections were enacted?
Therein lies the problem. I don’t think this type of industrial use would generate the kind of revenue for a developer that would justify paying a huge premium for the land.
If anything good came of the Kelo case, it was that the pharmaceutical company that was supposed to be the prime tenant in the project was a acquired by another giant firm ... so they didn’t need the space anymore and backed out of the deal. I believe the property is still vacant today generating $0 in tax revenue for the city of New London.
Tell the residences of Carver to stay out of expanding their cranberry production, Juneau & Monroe Counties, Wisconsin have that all sewn up.
I have a lot of connections to this story - I lived in Hanson, Mass for about 8 years, in the heart of cranberry country. I did some work for a sand and gravel company in Carver in the mid to late 80s, I wonder if it was the one this story mentioned. And I now live in the town where Edaville got most of it’s rolling stock, as a matter of fact I just bought a piece of land that includes about 300 feet of the old narrow gauge railroad bed.
I though that area was “God’s Country” until I moved up in the woods in Maine. Boy, this is God’s Country.
Then there’s no problem. The project does not continue. Find other land.
And, of course, the Kelo property has been bulldozed...
I forgot all about the Edaville Railroad!!! Of course, it has been half a century or more :)
Must have been a Hillary supporter...........
I bet!
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