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Just as an amusing aside, there is a piece of property right on a major intersection in Oakland California where all the major highways meet. You are probably seventy feet up, and if you look down, there is a squalid little home right smack dab in the middle of the freeway interchange. The owner held out since the mid 1960’s. It may be gone now, but was a textbook example of emminent domain vs the homeowner for years.

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Just as an amusing aside, there is a piece of property right on a major intersection in Oakland California where all the major highways meet. You are probably seventy feet up, and if you look down, there is a squalid little home right smack dab in the middle of the freeway interchange. The owner held out since the mid 1960’s. It may be gone now, but was a textbook example of emminent domain vs the homeowner for years.

But it's a bad example. Highways are public use. It is next to impossible to create an efficient highway or hightway system if they have to build in dog legs to go around holdouts. Kelo was about using eminent domain to transfer property to whoever could potentially generate the most economic activity on that property.