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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I think it gives too much power to private developers, who tend to dominate local governments already.
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Ever repped a developer? Lower life forms are hard to find.
Every scumbag developer from here to Alaska will now donate pissloads of cash to the local degenerates on the planning board to get the local govt to force a taking on some folks who don't want to sell a prime piece of land. The SCOTUS standard that the taking must be for local community betterment is easily met. Any scumbag planning board can decide a development is in the "community interest."
Excellent decision. Put the stupidest and most corrupt people on the planet in charge of deciding when private property may be taken.
This is what happens when idiots who've spent their lives in law books and never worked in reality get to decide such issues.
