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Florida town plans to use eminent domain
(Note: The thieves simply use Language Deception to sell their
schemes. Where do people go when their homes and small businesses are
taken and they cannot afford to buy "comparable housing"
anywhere else because it's all slated to become high-end housing?
Remember the feudal system, where the land baron "oversaw"
the peons and peasants. Think it can't happen in America? Time to wake
up and get involved -- NIMBY [Not In My Back Yard] has
evaporated.)
October 4, 2005
United Press International (UPI)
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Riviera Beach, Florida - 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 income of less than $19,000 a
year," Mayor Michael Brown said. "If
we don't use this power, cities will die."
The U.S. Supreme Court in June upheld the use of eminent domain for
economic purposes, ruling against a group of New London, Connecticut,
homeowners fighting a proposed corporate development.
The 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.
Viking has said it will pay at least the
assessed values of homes and businesses it buys.
Dana Berliner dberliner@ij.org,
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."
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