Your point is eloquent, well thought out and will serve some to assuage some feelings.
However, it does not change the fact that government will have a right to take your property.
Scenario: My city takes my land, following all of the rules you have set forth. They build a new shopping center. 10 years later, the center closes due to lack of business and investors. What has happened to my house, land and other? Now the city can sell my land again, at a much higher value and I am left with nothing but memories.
What has happened is a travesty, pure and simple and no amount of rhetoric is going to change the fact a city or government can take your land. Period.
The government has ALWAYS had the "right" to take your land. That part of it is no different today than it was since the creation of governments (originally the devine right of kings).
What has happened is a travesty, pure and simple and no amount of rhetoric is going to change the fact a city or government can take your land. Period...
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Exactly. This precedent is beyond belief and is the product of a runaway socialist Supreme Court (5 members) -- it is nothing more or less than a wholesale big government move to allow the governments (all levels) to use Eminent Domain as "license to kill" at your expense, at their will. It is major BIG BROTHER SOCIALISM. Plain and simple -- the exact agenda of the radical left.
Now can Cities have a right to cross county lines. If a rural county is next to a major city can the city say "we have no where to go but over there"?