[Issaquahking]

Guess I flew off the hanndle a little quick in atacking the messenger, not the message. I re-read the text and drawing attention where it is needed. Not that I support "a taking" by the government unless there is some Freeway that has been on the planning board forever and is being held up by one sale.

Starting to see a lot of activity here in the western U.S. where the government deliberately creates "inholders" Especially when it comes to natural resource potential, and they starve out a generation from effectively using their land. It's pretty characeristic of the government to keep pushing the same BS cart if they can get their way. We are continuing to find some effective road blocks in the last ten years...

[Issaquahking]

And the one sale has to be met with a true market value...not what some goofy local appraiser rates it at for tax purposes!

[AzaleaCity5691]

The west is going to be the big battleground over this. Not so much California, because to be quite honest, I think California has reached equilibrium. In the next 20 years, California is going to start suffering what New York, Illinois, etc have long dealt with.

It's become too expensive to do business in Cali.

I think two states where alot of these issues are going to come to the forefront. Idaho and Nevada.

With Nevada, the fact is, the boom has to go bust at some point. You can't run a city of 3 million people (I've heard some estimate thats what the metro will be by 2010) on gambling alone. Especially when you're talking about a city that would not exist without modern technology.

Idaho is different because of well, the explosion Boise has seen in the last few decades. I was surprised to find out the Boise area now has half a million people, and it is still growing exponentially. I think in the next 10-15 years, Boise will start encroaching on well, land that hasn't seen the light of civilization ever, and I think some big issues will occur there.

I'd same the same for Colorado.