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Liberal Supreme Court Strikes Down Property Rights!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/23/AR2005062300783_pf.html
“…WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that local governments may seize people's homes and businesses -- even against their will -- for private economic development.
It was a decision fraught with huge implications for a country with many areas, particularly the rapidly growing urban and suburban areas, facing countervailing pressures of development and property ownership rights.
The 5-4 ruling represented a defeat for some Connecticut residents whose homes are slated for destruction to make room for an office complex. They argued that cities have no right to take their land except for projects with a clear public use, such as roads or schools, or to revitalize blighted areas.
As a result, cities have wide power to bulldoze residences for projects such as shopping malls and hotel complexes to generate tax revenue.
Local officials, not federal judges, know best in deciding whether a development project will benefit the community, justices said.
"The city has carefully formulated an economic development that it believes will provide appreciable benefits to the community, including -- but by no means limited to -- new jobs and increased tax revenue," Justice John Paul Stevens wrote for the majority.
He was joined by Justice Anthony Kennedy, David H. Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer...”
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/23/scotus.property.ap/
The five above named Left Wing Justices of the United States Supreme Court dealt a tremendous blow to the constitutionally guaranteed right of a citizen to privately own and dispose of property in the United States.
There are over 10,000 other such cases currently in litigation and this ruling will have a tremendous impact on property owners across the nation.
Having a small knowledge of the subject, let me offer a scenario I watched unfold in a small western town.
Many towns and cities of varying size, find the older section of the downtown area often degrades as business and residential growth occurs away from the city center.
Over the years, a series of Federal, State and local grant money has become available to those cities to renovate the down town area.
It requires the formation of an association of city, county and state officials, Mayors, city councils, Port Authorities, School Districts and other tax funded public bodies to coordinate and apply for grants.
It also requires the participation of business and property owners in the blighted area, to cooperate and coordinate on the particular renovation procedures to be undertaken and the amount of money to be spent.
For nearly a generation, a ‘liberal’ coalition of environmentalists, greens, preservationists and anti industry groups, have participated in these inner city projects.
The civic association holds meetings and makes suggestions as to improvements, taxation and bond creation to provide a ‘matching’ level of funds for the grants they seeks.
Up until the Supreme Court Decision, individual property owners could, ‘opt out’ of the association and not participate.
Usually these newly created ‘old town areas’ are renovated only to ‘non intrusive’ businesses: no pollution, no increase in traffic, more green or park-like areas. This translates to mainly service industries of small boutique like shops, art galleries, Latte dinettes, doll shops, antique shops, all the artsy fartsy ventures the left wing glorifies in.
So, the money is spent to renew streets and sidewalks and fancy street lighting, taxes are raised on the local businesses and property owners and the buildings remain empty as they are not economically solid business ventures. Just the dreams of wild eyed liberals gazing myopically through rose colored glasses.
Up until now, that ‘Renovation Association’ had no power to ‘force’ property owners to go along with the plans they created.
With the new law, now those ‘economic groups’ can decide that any piece of property can be taken by ‘eminent domain laws’ and used as the ‘group’ sees fit.
Eminent domain is a reasonable law that allows the construction of large projects such as highway systems and dams by giving government to seize the needed property as long as compensation is given the individual property owner.
This new law is a travesty and if there is a way to impeach those five left wing judges, or demand they resign, then all effort should be made to do so.
amicus
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/23/AR2005062300783_pf.html
“…WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that local governments may seize people's homes and businesses -- even against their will -- for private economic development.
It was a decision fraught with huge implications for a country with many areas, particularly the rapidly growing urban and suburban areas, facing countervailing pressures of development and property ownership rights.
The 5-4 ruling represented a defeat for some Connecticut residents whose homes are slated for destruction to make room for an office complex. They argued that cities have no right to take their land except for projects with a clear public use, such as roads or schools, or to revitalize blighted areas.
As a result, cities have wide power to bulldoze residences for projects such as shopping malls and hotel complexes to generate tax revenue.
Local officials, not federal judges, know best in deciding whether a development project will benefit the community, justices said.
"The city has carefully formulated an economic development that it believes will provide appreciable benefits to the community, including -- but by no means limited to -- new jobs and increased tax revenue," Justice John Paul Stevens wrote for the majority.
He was joined by Justice Anthony Kennedy, David H. Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer...”
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/23/scotus.property.ap/
The five above named Left Wing Justices of the United States Supreme Court dealt a tremendous blow to the constitutionally guaranteed right of a citizen to privately own and dispose of property in the United States.
There are over 10,000 other such cases currently in litigation and this ruling will have a tremendous impact on property owners across the nation.
Having a small knowledge of the subject, let me offer a scenario I watched unfold in a small western town.
Many towns and cities of varying size, find the older section of the downtown area often degrades as business and residential growth occurs away from the city center.
Over the years, a series of Federal, State and local grant money has become available to those cities to renovate the down town area.
It requires the formation of an association of city, county and state officials, Mayors, city councils, Port Authorities, School Districts and other tax funded public bodies to coordinate and apply for grants.
It also requires the participation of business and property owners in the blighted area, to cooperate and coordinate on the particular renovation procedures to be undertaken and the amount of money to be spent.
For nearly a generation, a ‘liberal’ coalition of environmentalists, greens, preservationists and anti industry groups, have participated in these inner city projects.
The civic association holds meetings and makes suggestions as to improvements, taxation and bond creation to provide a ‘matching’ level of funds for the grants they seeks.
Up until the Supreme Court Decision, individual property owners could, ‘opt out’ of the association and not participate.
Usually these newly created ‘old town areas’ are renovated only to ‘non intrusive’ businesses: no pollution, no increase in traffic, more green or park-like areas. This translates to mainly service industries of small boutique like shops, art galleries, Latte dinettes, doll shops, antique shops, all the artsy fartsy ventures the left wing glorifies in.
So, the money is spent to renew streets and sidewalks and fancy street lighting, taxes are raised on the local businesses and property owners and the buildings remain empty as they are not economically solid business ventures. Just the dreams of wild eyed liberals gazing myopically through rose colored glasses.
Up until now, that ‘Renovation Association’ had no power to ‘force’ property owners to go along with the plans they created.
With the new law, now those ‘economic groups’ can decide that any piece of property can be taken by ‘eminent domain laws’ and used as the ‘group’ sees fit.
Eminent domain is a reasonable law that allows the construction of large projects such as highway systems and dams by giving government to seize the needed property as long as compensation is given the individual property owner.
This new law is a travesty and if there is a way to impeach those five left wing judges, or demand they resign, then all effort should be made to do so.
amicus
