One could write a book on government ineptness. My favorite:
Half Moon Bay California. A developer had a large tract of land he wanted to develop and was in the permitting process. A recent highway project, which he had nothing to do with, had sealed off a culvert. Rain water was now not able to drain to the sea. Time passed, more rain, more water, now reeds and such. The permit was denied, as he was now encroaching on a “wetlands”. Law suit followed, which he finally won. All this took about 5-6 years, IIRC.
One could write a book on government ineptness. My favorite:
They bankrupted their own (confiscated) WHORE HOUSE in Nevada.......
[Half Moon Bay California] Tale of woe.
Something similar happened some years ago at Lake Elsinore, CA. Developers bought a large block of empty land, intending to build condos. They ran into financial problems and it took them a couple of years to round up the money. Then found out that they can’t build because they let the weeds grow and some endangered critter (I think a toad) made the area their homes.
Can sell the land, but must continue to pay taxes.
I believe it was in the LA Times, with a headline something like “Mow your land or lose it.”