{"id":1087,"date":"2006-05-25T17:13:19","date_gmt":"2006-05-26T01:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/05\/sure_its_a_vacant_dilapidated_building_but_its_my_vacant_dilapidated_building.html"},"modified":"2006-05-25T17:13:19","modified_gmt":"2006-05-26T01:13:19","slug":"sure_its_a_vaca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/sure_its_a_vaca.html","title":{"rendered":"Sure It&#8217;s A Vacant, Dilapidated Building, But It&#8217;s My Vacant, Dilapidated Building!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re learning very quickly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesledger.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=16693257&#038;BRD=2676&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=542415&#038;rfi=6\">how the City views opponents of eminent domain abuse<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Greater Jamaica Development Corporation held its annual membership meeting Tuesday afternoon and the event was anchored by a panel discussion on eminent domain that featured a lawyer for New York City and a planning director from Raleigh, N.C., who both lauded the practice as an essential tool that, when used judiciously, can invigorate urban economies.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Bova-Hiatt, deputy chief of the New York City Law Department, said Tuesday the public&#8217;s response to a U.S. Supreme Court decision last June that upheld a city&#8217;s right to seize private property for economic development was <strong>&#8220;nothing short of hysterical.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bova-Hiatt said the case simply confirmed that economic development constitutes a &#8220;public benefit.&#8221; Bova-Hiatt said she is extremely concerned about a bill, currently under consideration in the U.S. Senate, that would prohibit city&#8217;s [sic] from using eminent domain for economic development.<\/em> [Emph. added because I don&#8217;t think most property owners are acting in a &#8220;hysterical&#8221; manner]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Easy for her to say!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re learning very quickly how the City views opponents of eminent domain abuse: The Greater Jamaica Development Corporation held its annual membership meeting Tuesday afternoon and the event was anchored by a panel discussion on eminent domain that featured a lawyer for New York City and a planning director from Raleigh, N.C., who both lauded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thats_an_outrage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}