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Originally Posted by sperbonzo
Screwed up isn't it? It's the laws of eminent domain, where government can sieze land for use by private companies. Niether Democrats nor Republicans have any problem with this. A Developer can come along, convince the county that he needs your property to build a prvate nursing home, or condos, or whatever, and the government can just take it from you and provide it to him.... (meanwhile giving you whatever the government deems to be "fair", whether you like it or not).
Government is just great, isn't it?
(VOTE GARY JOHNSON)
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This actually happened on the street I lived on in Daytona back when I was still there. The end of my street had a beach ramp & had a house as well as a mom & pop's hotel. During the Hurricanes back around 2005/06 I forget exactly when they were the mom & pops hotel took storm damage.
The city wouldn't give the mom & pop's hotel permits to repair their damage instead they condemned the property, then used eminent domain on the single family house that was next to it.
Turns out a contractor already owned the land on the other side of the hotel so now they got all this beach front property as well because they claimed they would develop condos and bring in more taxes.
On top of the land from the hotel & the single family house the city actually "gave" the builder, the fucking land the street was on. They actually dug up the street which was beach access then replaced it with a side walk access added the land from the street to their parcel.
The best part is at that time the housing market crashed and the condos were never built, so now this land just sits there over grown for the past several years.