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Homes may be 'taken' for private projects
Justices: Local governments can give OK if it's for public
good

The Associated Press
Updated: 12:23 p.m. ET June 23, 2005


WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that local
governments
may
seize people's homes and businesses - even against their
will -
for
private
economic development.

It was a decision fraught with huge implications for a country
with many
areas, particularly the rapidly growing urban and suburban
areas,
facing
countervailing pressures of development and property ownership
rights.

As a result, cities now have wide power to bulldoze residences
for
projects
such as shopping malls and hotel complexes in order to
generate
tax
revenue.

Yep, and it's horrendous. I guess there goes Naples Village by
the
Ritz
Carlton.

What is Naples Village?

An area of older homes adjacent to the Ritz Carlton.

The homes immediately adjacent to the Ritz Carlton start at about 5
million. The ones just down the road a half mile from there are
part
of a community called Beach Walk. Those homes sell for half a
million
and up. The other two areas around the Ritz are Vanderbilt Beach
and
Naples Park. Vanderbilt starts at about one and quarter million.
Naples Park runs in the high $400's and up. Of course, there are
condos that run anywhere from a half millon in Vanderbilt on the
bayside, to $15 million for the ones right next to the Ritz.


But there's no "Naples Village".


Why does this idiot who lives some 600 miles north of you think he
knows more about your city than you do?

Kevin continues to amaze me.

Kevin worked nights as a rent-a-cop guarding a Naples Wal-Mart
construction site when it was built a decade and a half ago. Even
though housing was pretty cheap on the west side (Gulf side) of US
41,
his $4 hour forced him to live among the swampbillies much further to
the east.


I bet he was union also. Do you think Krause was his supervisor at
the
time?

We don't allow unions down here.



So you have *standards*. Glad to hear it.

However I would have to side with the construction union
trades....electrical, plumbing, masonry, laborers and heavy equipment
operators unions. I have the deepest respect to the folks belonging to
those unions.....at least in the construction phase.

Being involved in the construction industry....I don't. Not when you see
the petty squabbles over who's job is who's, and then the resulting sabotage
by the losing union.


I have no pity for
the union electricians and plumbers responding to ordinary household
problems.

I also have a problem with the other slackers in the food workers,
teachers
and UAW unions, to name only a few.

*All* unions are not bad................*All* unions are not good.
*All*
unions are not bad.

I admit that. Krause and some others here do not.

Call me when you can justify a high school drop out making a better
starting
wage (UAW) than a teacher.

Go figure.