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To: joesbucks

Do you think it will be more difficult for homeowners to stall projects like that in light of the SCOTUS ruling?


96 posted on 06/26/2005 2:32:14 PM PDT by Peach
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To: Peach
I think that delay will still be there. In addition, there is the issue of fair compensation, which is still in place.

As some other poster noted, this has been going on for years. The court just reaffirmed what had been practice.

In my city, in the late 50's and through the 60's a couple of slum areas were eminent domained and turned over to private firms that developed office complexes and apartment buildings. Not the subsidized stuff, but full rent. What was different between those and the New London deal is the developers created quasi public entities to get around the "public" part of the eminent domain rules. Frankly, it happened the same way with a baseball team in Arlington Tx and the front man now lives on Pa Avenue in Wash DC. Other sports complexes have done the quasi public entity creation too. What the Supremes did is to make the quasi stuff no longer needed.

99 posted on 06/26/2005 2:59:25 PM PDT by joesbucks
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