There would be no airports, no highways, fewer schools, fewer hospitals, and no Keystone Pipe Line without eminent domain.
Please oh please, someone declare my house falls for some type of eminent domain, and offer me SEVEN times what my house is worth, like that lady in NY. I have zero sentimental attachment to bricks, mortar, wood, copper, roof shingles, etc used to build my house.
All the memorabilia are inside the house, and I can easily move them to my new and bigger and better house.
Spoken like a statist puke.
“Please oh please, someone declare my house falls for some type of eminent domain, and offer me SEVEN times what my house is worth, like that lady in NY. I have zero sentimental attachment to bricks, mortar, wood, copper, roof shingles, etc used to build my house.’
Li Kai-Shing (Hong Kong’s Trump only a lot more evil) bought our flat in 2007. HK has a lot less strict laws than the US. Our legal adviser said that yes we would eventually have to sell. The issue was how much money could we wring out Cheung-Kong Development before they went to the trouble taking us to imminent domain. We were TOLD to say “This is our home.” “Our kids grew up here!” “It isn’t about the money” (Even though it was about the money) We ended up with with a choice of a flat in the new building and about twice what we paid for the old one or about four times what we paid. We took the cash and moved back to Senior Staff Quarters at HKU.
The moral of this story? When people tell you it isn’t about the money it almost always is. That stupid old woman in New Jersey was a fool.
A few things.
All the things you listed are public use except the pipeline (unless it was a public pipeline, like water). They are not the same. I know people (including myself) that have large energy pipelines on their property (different pipelines not just neighbors) and non of them were forced to accept the pipeline on their property through eminent domain. All involved easements and leases that were voluntary.
With Kelo, they can take your house for “fair market value” instead of whatever it takes to get you to sell it. So your seven times is out the window now.
Last, there are people who’ve lived on their property over many generations and don’t want to sell for any price. No private entity should be able to override a persons right to their property.
It didn’t matter what she and her husband paid for their boarding house in 1961. It mattered what the current market value was in 1993.
Actually, entities often try negotiation BEFORE eminent domain proceedings begin. It is during that time that entities will agree to pay a multiple of what a property is notionally worth.
But once the jurisdiction invokes eminent domain whether for its own uses, or that of another entity, whether public or private, the jurisdiction will agree to pay as little as possible, often barely market value.
As the article cites, with regard to pipelines and railroads, jurisdictions are specifically empowered to use eminent domain, if nescessary, for common carriers.
A pipeline is a common carrier. A limousine parking lot is not.
As usual, trump is wrong.
Exactly. We had a new bypass go near our area. Everyone was HOPING that it would pass through their land so it would be bought at well above market value.