[CJ Wolf]

Welcome to FR Kevin.

[Black Agnes]

Preview of what will happen to the suburbanites in FL that support the everglades boondoggle. Once people are confined to small spaces, the 'single home owners' will lose to the same emminent domain BS for high rise/dense housing projects 'for the people'. I mean really, if a majority of the people vote for it, who can deny it's a good thing?

[Black Agnes]

Welcome to FR. Find the property rights folx and hang with them, you'll fit in just fine I think! :)

[AdamSelene235]

The only reason they have an affordable housing crisis is they used the tax money of those who can't afford housing to buy rich people large backyards aka "open space" or what Thomas Sowell calls "housing bans".

[Paleo Conservative]

I'm sure this is going to a federal court.

[dcwusmc]

Welcome aboard. Nice first post!

[Mr. Jeeves]

You Think You Own Your Property?....Not in Boulder

Not anywhere in the US. You are just renting it from the government (by paying property taxes). Your deed just grants you a limited degree of control over the property, with terms subject to change whenever the government chooses to change them.

[Libertina]

Hi Kevin, & welcome. Here in Washington state a city council has condemned LAND owned by a church because they say COSTCO will make a "better" neighbor and they are in cahoots with the company to build a new store. The church (that was planning to build) is not taking this quietly and have filed a law suit, thank goodness. And here I thought only buildings were condemned for being unsafe! It's unbelievable that a citizens private business & legally owned land can be shut down at the whim of a city council...no wait, we must be talking about the USSR...

[backhoe]

Welcome... FYI--

-The Thoreau Institute Urban Growth and Transportation Studies--

has a lot of info & opinion refuting the "urban sprawl," "Lite rail/mass transit" and related items...

And more here:

-Independence Institute--"Rights" Research

[Kay Ludlow]

How else can they create Utopia, when ordinary landowners don't want to participate? Condemnation is the only way to make it work, and when we have the perfect community, everyone will be glad. /sarcasm off

[NorCoGOP]

Pollard Motors is a viable ongoing enterprise, with a nice modern showroom and several hundred cars on the lot.

That is evil Kaptitalism in the People's Republic of Boulder - where's it's illegal to smoke a cigarette everywhere, but, marijuana (though technically illegal) is smoked openly and freely....

How dare someone try to make money in Boulder! Shame! Evil!

I never go to CU football games anymore, shop, eat, or even stop for gas if I have to go anywhere near that commune...errr...city....

[Question_Assumptions]

This is one of those issues where no one thinks its a problem until someone comes after their home. Don't expect anyone to wake up soon.

[cruiserman]

If you pay property taxes on your home/land, you don't own it.

[MileHi]

I just never go to the PRB anymore except the occasional TRT event. It's a snotty little upitty town.

BTW, welcome to FR.

[paulklenk]

Welcome, FReeper!

[beavus]

Who DOES own their own property?

Property tax = Rent.

Who do you send your property taxes to? They're the ones who own the property. If you don't think so, what do you think will happen to your property if you don't pay your rent, er uh, property taxes? Answer: Eviction.

[Paulus Invictus]

Darn! I didn't know that Boulder is still a part of the US. Didn't they vote to become part of China? When they confiscate private property and distribute the wealth to all, Boulder will achieve their dream of total socialism. Total dips run that nice place.