Then you may need to look into the fact that they did not receive “free land”. How do you think this country was settled before real estate laws and land ownership?
Practically every building on the Eastern Seaboard built during the colonial eras were built on “free land”.
The BSA improved the land at their cost, maintained the building at their cost, paid for utilities at their cost and now the city wants to capitalize on the BSA’s investment for the last 80 years.
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I own commercial property and all the improvements done to my property by a tenant becomes my property.