Needs-to-be-said-again-with-emphasis bump.
Business interests will go wild with this. They'll take whole neighborhoods and bulldoze them for overbuilding, with the right kind of money spread around the Downtown Crowd.
The biggest developers in America could have bought this decision with thirty shekels of silver, it is so custom-made for their interest. But they probably didn't even have to kick a buck -- this is liberalism come to its inevitable, rotten conclusion:
"Property rights? What property rights? Oh -- those property rights. Well, we don't like them.... Case dismissed."
I do not see this as liberalism except if one interprets it solely as love of big government. Yes, I know, the liberal parts of the court voted for it while the conservative portion dissented. However, this does not define liberalism or conservatism anymore than does conservative republicanism means big business interests. If that were the case, then the situation would be reversed (the liberal portion dissenting).