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Baseball and Eminent Domain
| Edgy DC Oct 26 2005 12:25 PM |
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DC siezes properties for stadium.
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| metirish Oct 26 2005 12:40 PM |
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The seedy side of building new stadiums, ok if the City values the trash transfer station at $8.7 M and the owner values it at $14.3 M does an arbitrator help settle it?
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| Edgy DC Oct 26 2005 12:55 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 26 2005 01:18 PM |
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Problem is that the supposed right to eminent domain used to mean siezing enough land for the railroad to pass through --- a concrete public interest such as that. A recent Supreme Court ruling though shows that the public interest doesn't need to be anything more than the presumed economic benefit of a public real-estate-develoment project. And it may well apply to any federal, state, and municipal governments.
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| Johnny Dickshot Oct 26 2005 01:15 PM |
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Kinda frightening thing you don't like to think too much about.
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| metirish Oct 26 2005 01:19 PM |
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Chavez Ravine was truely wrong...
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| cooby Oct 26 2005 01:41 PM |
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Eminent domain, the sewer company, local governments, et al, goes too far sometimes. It's scary what they bully people into just because they can
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| MFS62 Oct 26 2005 02:07 PM |
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IIRC, the area around DC Staduim qualifies as an "Urban Renewal" site, no matter what will be erected there. Or has the area been upgraded in the last 35 years? Looks like its zoned for lite industry now.(from the picture)
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