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Publius — (archived)

Spin is neither intended nor implied. But if your elected governmental agencies(impowered with eminent domain authority) after the requisite advertising, public hearings and court challenges decide a section of town should be cleared out to build a state university there is no transit of the 5th amendment here.

When you say, "So it's the public good to enrich private developers? Nice spin." I am not spinning when I admit that sometime this might be an accurate statement. And you are certainly correct in saying, "Up to NOW, siezure (abomnibale that it is) had to serve the PUBLIC good." This is still the case and will continue to be so. Legal remedy and challange are still in place.

And I certainly don't "wish to cede access to my home" to any entity not of my choosing and volition. But, if that home is situate right in the middle of a needed highway right of way, that home is going to go. The good news is that I will have market value to replace that home and relocation funds to ease my pain.

The only new, or added issue here is your elected authorities can look to non-governmental sources to effect the public good. I understand your concern these entities will make a profit by doing this and they will. But then corporations are not supposed to be humanitarian entities.

Some previous examples of private and public partnerships of this nature include the Baltimore waterfront and the Quincy Market district in Boston by the Roush group.

Is it so uncommon for public interests and private motives to be symbiotic? I certainly hope not.

Publius

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