Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Hollywood moves to seize woman's storefronts so developer can build condos: South Florida Sun-Sentinel
From Nancy Levy comes this story of a big-time municipal land grab, that deals with an issue similar to the Kelo case now before the USSC.

Over the objections of a man who said Hollywood is stealing his family's land to enrich a powerful developer, the City Commission voted Tuesday night to begin eminent-domain proceedings on a small retail building downtown to make way for a $100 million condo project.

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