{"id":5328,"date":"2005-10-04T14:57:48","date_gmt":"2005-10-04T21:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=5328"},"modified":"2005-10-04T14:57:48","modified_gmt":"2005-10-04T21:57:48","slug":"kelo-ing-me-softly-florida-town-plans-to-use-eminent-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=5328","title":{"rendered":"Kelo-ing me softly:  “Florida town plans to use eminent domain”"},"content":{"rendered":"

From UPI<\/a><\/p>\n

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Officials of a poor, predominantly black Florida town plan to relocate about 6,000 residents to make room for a billion-dollar yachting and housing complex.<\/p>\n

The coastal community of Rivera Beach in Palm Beach County may use eminent domain, if necessary, to claim 400 acres of land for the project, The Washington Times reported Monday.\n<\/p>\n

\n“This is a community that’s in dire need of jobs, which has a median income of less than $19,000 a year,” Mayor Michael Brown said. “If we don’t use this power, cities will die.”\n<\/p>\n

\nThe U.S. Supreme Court in June upheld the use of eminent domain for economic purposes, ruling against a group of New London, Conn., homeowners fighting a proposed corporate development.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe City Council last week chose a New Jersey-based developer, Viking Inlet Harbor Properties LLC, to oversee the project, which is expected to displace 2,000 houses.\n<\/p>\n

\nViking has said it will pay at least the assessed values of homes and businesses it buys.\n<\/p>\n

\nDana Berliner, a lawyer who represented the New London homeowners, warned, “Once someone can be replaced, so something more expensive can go where they were, every home and business in the country is subject to taking by someone else.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nI don’t want to jump the gun here—after all, I suppose it’s possible<\/i> that the entire 400 acres is run down beyond repair, and that all 2000 houses meet the criteria for takeover under eminent domain—but that seems rather unlikely. \n<\/p>\n

\nInstead, what we have is a burgeoning municipal mantra:  All your homes are belong to us!\n<\/p>\n

\nFor some nice background on the ideology behind this move, on the part of local governments, to spread what can best be described as Constitutional socialism, see Matt Welch:  “Why the New York Times Hearts Eminent Domain”<\/a> and “The left’s eyeing your home”<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\n(h\/t Robb Allen, who is spitting mad<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From UPI Officials of a poor, predominantly black Florida town plan to relocate about 6,000 residents to make room for a billion-dollar yachting and housing complex. The coastal community of Rivera Beach in Palm Beach County may use eminent domain, if necessary, to claim 400 acres of land for the project, The Washington Times reported Monday. “This is a community that’s in dire need of jobs, which has a median<\/p>\n

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