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Skywise wrote:
"Dave Stadt" wrote in news:bzTIf.29175$Jd.14562

Its a matter of the highest and best use of the land, simple
economics.


By that ass(umption), then let'$ $ell all the park$ and turn them
over to developer$ -- highe$t and be$t u$e of the land, after all!

And schools. They produce no revenue and are a huge tax burden.

And the neighborhood you live in. After all, a mall or Big Box
store would bring in far more tax revenue than your paltry
property taxes.

And it's already happening.

There are ample empty Big Box vacancies around suburban Chicago. The
scheme from
the Alan Keyes disciples is to declare a suburban downtown area
"blighted" (usually containing 1950's and earlier buildings) and issue
mega $Millions in bonds to buy up the
blighted real estate (at a hefty price) and resell to connected
developers for your typical yuppie condo/$tarbucks "improvements".
When the taxes from the "redevelopment zone" fail to pay off the bonds,
all the town HOMEOWNERS are hit with property tax increases to fund the
mess.

And these politicians are the fiscal conservatives.

JG

Actually, what I was specifically refering to is the increasing
use of imminent domain to forceably remove people from their
homes and then turning the land over to some developer for
commercial private use.

Brian
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