Good Use of Eminent Domain

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The New Jersey township of Mount Laurel turned the tables on a real estate developer, using the power of eminent domain to seize a 16 acre piece of land to turn it into open space [link] and [link]. The developer had planned to build 23 homes on the parcel, but Mount Laurel decided that open space was more important to the town than another bunch of McMansions and went ahead and seized the property. The township restated the takings clause, that property can be condemned "for a public purpose", ... (more)

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