Sue the officials personally and bankrupt them or burn their houses to the ground.
The Left tries to destroy and transform prosperous suburbs which they hate with “mandates” that overturn and supercede local zoning laws.
๐๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ง๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฅ๐๐๐ญ
Go seize the properties of these politicians and make them low-income housing projects.
Karma has to bite back.
New Jerksey.
Is it really over?
I think there is another family near another town in New Jersey who has been going through the same problem for the same reason.
Ah, Kelo...
This is great.
Our little town on the San Francisco Peninsula was laid out in the very early 1900s. It was largely agricultural and orchards. It was finally incorporated a few years after WW II ended and the huge post-war single family building boom took. The founders wrote that the town should retain its rural character and set a strict two-story height limit for the downtown retail and commercial area. We moved there 30 years after incorporation and the “founding fathers’” vision was strictly maintained. Then the state of CA started butting its nose into local housing plans, forced every town to have a “housing element” in their plans, and the developers all smelled money. Because the state said so, the town threw away the two story height limit around the edge of town and four story condos sprouted like weeds. But Main Street maintained its small town two-story charm. The city had submitted FIVE revisions to its “housing element” to the state and all were rejected. The city finally capitulated before fighting the STATE broke the bank. Immediately, another stinking developer proposed a SEVEN story building with the top two floors dedicated to moderate income housing. Because he was going to put in those two floors in compliance with the “housing element” it had to be approved. I think the building got reduced to five floors, but it’s going to be an enormous eyesore in the center of town — shadows all over, blocking views of the beautiful Santa Cruz Mountains to the west.
So eight years ago we bought another place in then-cheap North Idaho. Now another corrupt city council and another stinking developer are finishing a NINETEEN story condo project in downtown Coeur d’Alene that is going to cast long shadows over the town and block views of the iconic Tubbs Hill to the south.
Neither of these two projects were the result of Eminent Domain takings, but the pattern of corrupt city and state governments is the same. Those pols think “we need more housing” and let the developers get away with murder ruining the once bucolic place for long-time residents.
I grew up when the country had “only” 150 million people. With almost 200 million more than that today (!!), these changes were bound to happen. With birth rates way below replacement, maybe the USA won’t hit 300 or 400 million population and these forces will abate. I’m not hopeful. I expect the politicians post-Trump will throw open the borders because “who else will pick our crops?”
Out of all the land in Pittsburgh County, Oklahoma the damn government took my Grandfather’s little farm where he scratched out a living and they built a German POW camp. It broke him and he died soon after.
Five of his sons went to that war, all came back but wasn’t that enough?
All I or anyone else could ask about his little farm being taken was why? and never got an answer. It has been hard for me for my knowing life to not be bitter about that.
We are mostly a family that try to live right and do right by others but just want to be let alone. Some things are worth more than just money.
I am very happy for the Henry family.
God Bless the Henrys for fighting the good fight. It might not be over if appealed under the Kelo travesty. if that happens, I hope they fight it and I would gladly contribute to that defense in the hopes that SCOTUS regains its mind and overturns Kelo.
Through legal maneuvering that would have handed it to developers.
New Jerseyโs affordable housing requirements, part of the stateโs โMount Laurel doctrine,โ which forces municipalities to set aside areas for low- and moderate-income housing.
Who says we don’t have socialism with Marxism muscle backing?.
Yay!
Outstanding!