On 6/29/2018 10:26 AM, jbeattie wrote:
On Friday, June 29, 2018 at 7:21:00 AM UTC-7, Joerg wrote:

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Yes, lord over them and drive up the land value. Larry Cameron made
a bundle off a cow pasture. To create a CSD, you have to have buy-in
from the existing residents -- so apparently, the one resident
business -- a cow pasture -- was not complaining.


You bet they were. While on a bike ride I saw a old man gazing at a new
development. I wanted to check it out as well so we got to talk. He was
born and raised here and his family dates way back to before this area
was built out. He was ****ed that he had to shell out north of $30k in
lawyer fees and still lost his eminent domain case. In fact, in the end
his lawyer suggested to pull the plug.

The eastern part of Cameron Park has plenty of such families because
that was a properous freight transfer location in the gold rush. When
Larry wasn't born yet.

Eminent domain is taking by the government and not private development. Your wistful old man probably spent his money trying to prevent the development by challenging a zoning change that allowed PUDs or some sort of high density development.
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Maybe back in the old country, where I was born, not now:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/04-108.ZS.html

Try to keep up

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