If their land is being taken from them, they should get a stipend based on the revenues generated on it. Anything else is theft and is beneath the dignity of any country that I would be proud of.
Odds are, in the end, this city council is going to generate more than a few jailbirds.
It's not like we haven't seen this sort of thing before ~ Fairfax County, where I lived, once lost it's County Board of Supervisors to the state prison ~ it was really bad ~ only one left was this Packard woman, and she was terribly obnoxious.
That Board had big plans to economically develop the county, and all those plans had a direct link to their own pockets.
My residential neighborhood actually has an R100 lot immediately adjacent to it.
You ever see an R100 building in the suburbs? This gang was stupid.
I agree, similar to oil royalties. Since their land is "revenue producing", they and their heirs should receive payments.