[Flyer]

The city has carefully formulated a development plan that it believes will provide appreciable benefits to the community, including, but not limited to, new jobs and increased tax revenue

Eminent domain to increase tax revenues is wrong.

[freeeee]

Eminent domain to increase tax revenues is wrong.

Agreed. The People delegated power to take land for public infrastructure: roads, schools, water projects, etc..

It is no surprise governemnt has not respected limits on this power. Yesterday they chose to openly declare they will abuse it. I say we take it away from them.

[Captain Rhino]

The city of New London (hereinafter City) sits at the junction of the Thames River and the Long Island Sound in southeastern Connecticut. Decades of economic decline led a state agency in 1990 to designate the City a "distressed municipality." In 1996, the Federal Government closed the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, which had been located in the Fort Trumbull area of the City and had employed over 1,500 people. In 1998, the City's unemployment rate was nearly double that of the State, and its population of just under 24,000 residents was at its lowest since 1920.

It might make a difference to the 1500 people who lost their jobs in 1996 or the others who are suffering because of an unemployment rate nearly double State average. Economic development might just turn them into prosperous taxpayers again (as opposed drawing tax funded unemployment and welfare payments).