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Originally posted by The Larry Davis Experience
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Uh, can they really do this? I would think that due process/the takings clause/whatever would require the showing of a link between the property and illicit activity that rises to a level above "a pattern of drug activity within 1000 feet." Anybody familiar with these types of ordinances elsewhere?
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It seems rather arbitrary. If you can tie the home to drug sales in the home, outside the home, 20 miles away from the home, a million miles away from the home, then you should be able to take the home.
Assuming the "tie" is somewhat reasonable. But that proposal you are posting leads me to believe they are trying to reduce the reasonableness of the "tie" in favor of the mere proximity of the home to something-or-other. Doesn't work for me.
You either have the "tie" or you don't. If you do, then nuke it, tear it down, burn it down, seize it, whatever. If you don't, then don't touch it.
It really is as simple as that to me.
FWIW, FYI, tHe heightened-penalty school rules make sense to me (500 feet of a school...), because they are tied to increased danger to innocents.
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