Here in Dallas, a portion of land containing 140 or so homes is being taken to build the new DALLAS COWBOYS STADIUM. A homeowner of 40 years is planning to chain himself to the tree in his front yard, a way of protesting his loss, when the bulldozers come.
This is the way I think we should handle this. I plan on boycotting the Dallas Cowboys, no stadium tickets, no watching of the TV games, no buying of the Cowboy's paraphenalia or whatever that concerns the Cowboys. This may be tougher on someone else, someone who loves football, but I will have no problem whatsoever. Will the rest of you guys do the same?? I think it would be an excellent way to get the point across!!!
What needs to be done is demanding that developers pay the potential land value, not the city assessed value.
A parcel of land worth 500K, with a potential to developers of 50 million, needs to be negotiated from that point. Not the 500K.