Fuck... i hope the army base 10 miles down the road doesnt hope to expand anytime soon.
http://news.yahoo.com/fc/us/supreme_court
WASHINGTON - A divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday that local governments may seize people's homes and businesses against their will for private development in a decision anxiously awaited in communities where economic growth often is at war with individual property rights. The 5-4 ruling — assailed by dissenting Justice Sanday Day O'Connor as handing "disproportionate influence and power" to the well-heeled in America — was a defeat for some Connecticut residents whose homes are slated for destruction to make room for an office complex.
something like this happend to my 6th grade teacher. the home he grew up in were his parents had lived for nearly 50 years was right next to Scott Air Force Base, (where my parents were stationed at the time, and were they retired). the base wanted to make a new and bigger runway and my teachers parents house was right in the path of the runway.
the govt paid them. but they got booted out before their new house was even half done.
http://news.yahoo.com/fc/us/supreme_court
WASHINGTON - A divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday that local governments may seize people's homes and businesses against their will for private development in a decision anxiously awaited in communities where economic growth often is at war with individual property rights. The 5-4 ruling — assailed by dissenting Justice Sanday Day O'Connor as handing "disproportionate influence and power" to the well-heeled in America — was a defeat for some Connecticut residents whose homes are slated for destruction to make room for an office complex.
something like this happend to my 6th grade teacher. the home he grew up in were his parents had lived for nearly 50 years was right next to Scott Air Force Base, (where my parents were stationed at the time, and were they retired). the base wanted to make a new and bigger runway and my teachers parents house was right in the path of the runway.
the govt paid them. but they got booted out before their new house was even half done.
