Posted on 06/24/2005 10:38:12 AM PDT by jeffers
Last night's local Fox News ran a story that our local government is looking at using this precedent to force downtown landowners out to make room for a new sports stadium.
This was followed by a story announcing a new plan for a rapid transit system which will require the displacement of tens of thousands of homes and businesses.
it's as if the government here has been planning and waiting for this decision to be handed down, and can't wait to start seizing property under this travesty of justice.
No one is safe, not anywhere in the country.
Any state can pass a law saying we won't do it today, and later, when the furor dies down, quietly change the law back to business as usual.
The Constitution is supoposed to be our final line of protection, but the Supreme Court abdicated their authority.
Or worse.
Didn't take long, did it?
Where does it say in the constitution "public good" or "to benefit the public". The Phase "public use" is pretty clear, if they meant something else they would have stated that way.
The Clinton Excuse doesn't fly.
What does "is" really mean?
Thanks...
Why are you replying to me?
Do more. Email is too easily ignored. Make a call and write a real letter.
Wrong. Any court would have said: "Stadium? Yep, ED applies here." and the homeowner's only legal recourse would have been over the price for the land. That is wholly independent of the Kelo decision which addresses for which purposes ED can be used.
As near as I can tell the site accepts petitions from a wide spectrum of viewpoints.
The host or parent company seems to be an outfit called Artifice, Inc.
Google leads to this page, a designer of CAD software.
http://www.artifice.com/
Like any online site, I wouldn't give them my primary e-mail address, but that's all they ask for and I know what I signed.
I see no risk to signing, or else I wouldn't have signed myself and propagated the link.
Nor did the City need any new ruling to take land for a transit system.
I am definitely-but sent email for immediate arrival.
Not long ago in Orlando the old Navy base was shut down. It was on extremely valuable land so the town sold it off to developers (their friends) at dirt cheap prices. The people who have lived here their whole lives get nothing.
http://www.petitiononline.com/lp001/petition.html
"That is wholly independent of the Kelo decision
which addresses for which purposes ED can be used."
So FOX just invented last night's story from thin air?
Sorry friend, your arguments are either politically naive or else politically motivated.
Ciao.
Thanks!
Here in Denver, both Lakewood and Wheat Ridge have stated they will also use it.
Yah, that's my point. Instead of flailing around, why don't the people involved work to get a law passed? I wouldn't think it would be hard to get a LOT of pressure put on lawmakers to change it.
Not all, but at least 5.
You're welcome to do so. The problem is that this comes out of the railroad rulings in the 1800s. Stadia have a similar problem. They need many acres of contiguous land. (Parking, etc.) One holdout ruins the whole deal. The same argument could be made for a development district, but if the development district were only 90% of the planned space, it could still happen. Not so with a stadium.
You could argue that railroads are much more essential as a transportation medium than a stadium as a sports and entertainment arena and you would be right, but my point is that this has already been settled.
Your idea of "just compensation" is interesting, but it ultimately inshrines this bad idea of ED into law. For "public use" the value of property often goes down or is unable to be properly assessed (a public park, for example) because it cannot be used privately.
I'll boycott all but those. After this SCOTUS ruling, I'm gonna need them.
I was #348 to sign.
Sorry, I don't watch it 24/7. Not everybody knows what you're talking about.
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