| Prop 90, which was recently publicly rejected by Arnold Schwarzenegger, uses the name "Protect Our Homes". Well, so a good question would be: How many homes have been taken by eminent domain? Well, here are some answers to that question:
Bay Area governments have very rarely used powers of eminent domain to seize private homes and turn them over to developers over the last decade, according to a Chronicle survey of every local agency that does such projects.
Only two owner-occupied homes have been acquired by governments using eminent domain for redevelopment over the last 10 years, local officials reported. Officials razed one to build an apartment complex in Concord and the other to help make room for a new downtown in Pleasant Hill.
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The Chronicle's survey findings mirror the results of a recent California Redevelopment Association survey of most of the state's 386 redevelopment agencies. It found that between 2000 and the end of 2004, eminent domain was initiated in the purchase of 28 owner-occupied homes.
Of course, the No on 90 spokesman, Kevin Spillane, says that those numbers are all lies. You know, because the government always lies and stuff. The fact is that "Protect Our Homes" will do nothing of the sort. Rather it will protect developers as they want to pillage our open spaces as they have done in Oregon, where the voters now want to rid themselves of this albatross. In Portland, the city planners are desperately trying to protect the open space around the city.
The fact is that Prop 90 is just a bad law. |
