"Kevin" wrote in message
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Tom Sixkiller wrote:
Local city is so busy rubbing their greedy little hands together,
already
counting the anticipated taxes that there seems to be NOTHING this
builder
wants that he can't have. The CITY-OWNED municipal airport is just
across
the street and down the road about a quarter mile. Traffic pattern is
now
over this formerly agricultural field. This airport has been here since
before WWII, and has a flight school that has operated continuously,
with
the same ownership for almost 25 years.


Think that's bizarre, read up on the abuse of eminent domain by local
governments, particularly where they grab land for shopping malls,
Trumps'
casino, etc. So much for "Public Use" doctrine from the Constitution.



Wal-Mart is well known to use this method to obtain land the owners
refuse to sell.

I've heard they've tried it twice. Don't know if the offered "fair market
value, though), but the worst offenders are sports stadiums. In Phoenix,
when they were getting ready to build BankOne Ballpark for the Diamondbacks
it came close to a violent confrontation with the police but local
protesters.