Go get 'em Richard...I like what I have just read...-W
With reference to the last part of this post:
Can you name any good uses of eminent domain? I can't think of any project worthwhile that used it.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/ar...L&
type=politics
RE: Eminent domain. It all depends on what side of the table you are on.
The fantastic SFMOMA and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts are properties that were taken by eminent domain. The Filipino Community that was in that neighborhood (that ended up in Daley City) has never forgotten, though.
The Lincoln Center was also built on land taken by eminent domain. Although, I'm not sure it's ever been as successful. (The Yerba Buena area sat for 30 years through legal fights and competing visions before creating an urban oasis and cultural uses was settled on in the 1990s.)
Re: The Report. It's good, but I think it could have been much shorter. I imagine listening to this would be even harder. The point was made within the first few paragraphs. But I think I'm just nitpicking. Good work.
I don't know about the S.F. example, but I think I can speak to Lincoln Center in NY, in the negative. This think is a mega project, and not very city friendly. A much better choice would have been to take its component parts, and integrate them into the rest of the neighborhood. Instead they created an isolated outpost that does not really work with the street.
though hotly contested the central business district in Beirut was grabbed by the lebanese equivalent of eminent domain. here is the website:
http://www.solidere.com./project...ect/
beirut.html
still, the project and land grab consolidated a mostly detroyed neighborhood and was the only means to rebuild and revitalize.
my link above in my first response was about a community in California stopping the introduction of a wal-mart.
The written testimony is written. The verbal testimony is much more extemporaneous, that's where I got my instead of this being "one for all" it's more about "all for one"...
Who are the decision makers on this? Is there anybody we can call or send emails to?
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