Would you look at that racist white guy holding the sign in the background????
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Black Small Businesses Matter!
Zoned out of business is an interesting area of eminent domain law.
If he were in California he could talk to a lawyer about filing an “inverse condemnation” lawsuit and ask for loss of business “goodwill” as damages.
Note that “goodwill” in this context is NOT what is called goodwill in accounting.
Seems like he would be grandfathered, but that was when we still had the rule of law.
He is definitely no shade-tree mechanic, if you click through to the previous article on Forbes he has a 65-66 Mustang and a Shelby Cobra 427 in his shop. He definitely has skills.
Well, he must have been the WRONG kind of Kenyan immigrant.....
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Would you look at that racist white guy holding the sign in the background????
/sarc
Two weeks ago I was talking with this guy from Ghana in a hotel lobby who was here for about 10 years. Nice, pleasant, smart and an ambitious worker with a positive ‘tude.
A far cry from many of his American born, chip on the shoulder types ‘gibs me dats’ malcontents.
But even if there were some legitimate emergency that required uniform compliance to some new code, you'd think the zoning board had other options. Changing the zoning on a business ex post facto and then demanding that it conform to the new code surely is a "taking," and should obligate the municipality to pay compensation for the value represented by the business activity over an anticipated number of years--something easily established from receipts, in this case.
I don't understand--other than the usual, corrupt, political reasons. In these situations, there's usually the invisible hand of a politically connected competitor in the picture, isn't there? Otherwise, these local totalitarian visions would be impossible to get done.
“planned development district.” “a trendy gateway to the city’s arts district.”
Typically these are created by unelected regional planning councils.
Dallas City Council has been a cabal of buffoons for quite awhile now. Would like to see a massive demonstration so this good man can keep his business. Govt is a tyrant.
Wonder what his chance of prevailing would be, if he took the matter up with the courts as an unconstitutional taking? If they’re able to force him to sell his property and jeopardize his business, they in actuality are taking from him, and he should be made whole.
It’s been my unfortunate experience to lose a business to such zoning notions. I post one word, and one word only to explain how these situations occur:
Liberals.
One never opens a business in a liberal run city. It’s the same as opening a used car lot on Lemon St.
We can’t allow a legal immigrant shown to be successful and working his way up from absolute poverty to a successful business man. Immigrants need to be shown as helpless infants reliant on caring democrat politicians. Something similar happened to me with eminent domain taking my land to give to a private developer. You can’t win. Some one like Trump will unleash an army of lawyers to take what they want all the while hiring the government to point the gun at you.
Shame he’s not gay—
IOW, a homosexual infested liberal-progressive hangout.