It’s embarrassing to see conservatives twisting themselves into pretzels defending the use of eminent domain for a limousine parking lot.
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The facts have been misrepresented. The use of a parking lot was going to be temporary. The future use was to build another hotel tower and this boarding house was one part of an ASSEMBLAGE. In fact, one element of the court’s basis for striking down the Eminent Domain had to do with the fact that the property would not be put to the proper public use immediately which was a new hotel tower, so it ruled against the Casino Development Company on the temporary use.
The case is worth reading.
As most things...there is a lot more to the story.
It would seem that even for Kelo like situations there should be a “use it or lose it” principle in effect. Otherwise waste is invited.