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McCorvic Sucks
06-24-2005, 06:00 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/23/scotus.property.ap/index.html

In short, your life and home are worthless in the face of bulldozers because local officials "know best".
fukkatsu
06-24-2005, 08:33 PM
That is going on in NJ also! We had a nice chunk of property next to my neihborhood taken up by one house. It used to be a horse farm but the people living in it had retired and just wanted to be left alone on their huge property to enjoy what they had worked so hard for.

Well, in short, the town wanted their land for 600 grand houses that don't make any sense in a 200 grand neighborhood. They badgered them until they couldn't take it and moved out. Can you blame them? I think they said the people came to their door everyday and even when they wouldn't answer they would still shout things.

Evil I say. Just evil. I liked their house and their property the way it was. Especially when it was a safe haven for deer and other animals. Now they are just everwhere.
McCorvic Sucks
06-25-2005, 12:09 AM
I'm sure they are getting some sort of "compensation", but I'm assuming the people weren't interested in anything but living where they wanted to.
ClymAngus
06-25-2005, 12:35 AM
I'm sure they are getting some sort of "compensation", but I'm assuming the people weren't interested in anything but living where they wanted to.

I can't say I'm suprised. And who gets the contracts for the demolition and the new development? And whom are the share holders in the boards of those companies? Yes local officials know best (know best how to filter public funds to fill their own pockets). Follow the money find the corruption.

Oh and look there, the courts have just rubber stamped the whole thing. Classic.
fukkatsu
06-25-2005, 01:33 AM
Most of the people that they are kicking out are getting like hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars. I guess it is just the fact that you have built a life in that one spot and you have to leave it before you really want to. It is hard to give up something you love on a smaller scale so I can only imagine what it would be like to give something up on that large of a scale. I am sure that it is nothing short of devastating.

The government on a large scale sucks but the smaller scale governments are just vicious.