Baseball and Eminent Domain

[Guest Edgy DC]

DC siezes properties for stadium.

[metirish]

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?

[Guest Edgy DC]

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.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Kinda frightening thing you don't like to think too much about.

Wait'll Bloomberg & Wilpon grab ahold of the Willets Pt. chopshops.

[metirish]

Chavez Ravine was truely wrong...

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/chavezravine/cr.html

[Guest cooby]

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

[MFS62]

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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