Marshall Sutherland

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 21:19:53 -0500

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

I bet labeling your property a slum before they do it really reduces the "just compensation" they pay.
Here’s how the government takes your home
by ReasonTV on YouTube

Eminent domain allows the state to take someone’s property as long as they provide just compensation. Sometimes it’s for important utility projects, but often it’s for political pet projects like tourist attractions or an electric vehicle factory.

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Wed, 01 Nov 2023 12:36:33 -0400

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

Historic Black Neighborhood Threatened with Eminent Domain
by Institute for Justice on YouTube

Family homes that have been handed down generations, nestled among century-old oak trees. A charming, renovated two-story house on the National Register of Historic Places. Church property, donated by parishioners, that serves as the gathering place for the community.

What do these places have in common? All of them are part of a “slum” or “blighted area”—at least, that is, according to the city of Ocean Springs, Mississippi. This past April, Ocean Springs declared all of these—alongside dozens of other well-maintained homes and properties—to be “slum and blighted” in order to designate them as an “urban renewal” area. That designation authorizes the city to use eminent domain to forcibly take away the homes and businesses within the city’s so-called “urban renewal area.”

The city also didn’t tell any residents or property owners that they declared them blighted—or that the blight designation would be final and unappealable if they failed to appeal within 10 days. Unsurprisingly, since no one knew, no one appealed.

Cynthia Fisher has lived in the Railroad District for 70 years. In 1980, she moved around the corner from the home she grew up in, which is now declared “blighted.” At least seven family members, including one of her daughters, live just a few steps away. The houses in her family are over 100 years old; six generations of Cynthia’s family grew up in their Robinson Street house.

Now, Cynthia, along with other home and business owners whose properties have been blighted, are teaming up with the Institute for Justice to launch a federal lawsuit. Well-cared-for property should never be blighted, and blight designations should never be passed in secret. The U.S. Constitution bars government from depriving people of their property rights without due process, but that is exactly what Ocean Springs did.

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Wed, 01 Nov 2023 13:08:43 -0400

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

Reminds me of the Vogons telling Earthlings that the plans to build a bypass through their planet had been on file at the local office, if they had bothered to check.

Sun, 02 Jul 2023 18:38:08 -0400

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

"They're Trying to Steal Our Family Land"
by Institute for Justice on YouTube

A group of Sparta, Georgia, property owners announced they have teamed up with the Institute for Justice (IJ) to challenge a private railroad’s attempt to take their land for a rail spur that would benefit a private business. IJ will represent Don and Sally Garrett, Blaine and Diane Smith, and Marvin and Pat Smith in a legal proceeding before the Georgia Public Service Commission against Sandersville Railroad’s attempt to use eminent domain to condemn and take their land.

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Tue, 23 May 2023 17:37:31 -0400

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

PRIVATE Company Tries to SEIZE Land thru Eminent Domain
by Institute for Justice on YouTube#eminent_domain #IJ #video

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Sat, 19 Nov 2022 14:31:48 -0500

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

#^Bullying homeowners off their land for a taxpayer-subsidized factory

New York's "investment of the century" comes at a high cost for the people whose homes must be bulldozed to make way for a Micron semiconductor plant.

Britta Serog and her family have lived at the end of Burnet Road, on the outskirts of Syracuse, New York, for decades. Serog’s home and the surrounding lands are now under threat – thanks to a combination of federal subsidies and eminent domain, a legal concept that allows the government to forcibly take ownership of their property.

She is one of the few holdouts who remains steadfast in her opposition to the county's plan to seize land along Burnet Road in order to clear the way for a massive semiconductor factory. President Joe Biden has hailed the project as proof that his "Made In America" economic agenda is a success. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has called it "the investment of the century." For Serog and her neighbors, however, the project is something else entirely. It's the end of the place they have called home for decades.

"Taking somebody's private land and giving it to another private company. Is that the government's place? I don't think so."

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Tue, 08 Feb 2022 18:11:23 -0500

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

New York County Tries To Destroy a 100-Year-Old Neighborhood
by Institute for Justice on YouTube

The government shouldnâ€™t be able to force you off your land and bulldoze your home to make way for private development, like a privately owned plant that makes semiconductors. But that is exactly what officials from Onondaga County in New York are threatening against the Burnet Road homeowners.

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