One man's blight is ordsprog

One man's blight is another man's castle. Without proper restrictions and well-defined parameters, governments will exploit the blight loophole and continue to abuse eminent domain power.

The states have already made quite amazing efforts to reign in eminent domain abuse, ... We hope and expect that state and local governments will continue to create strong safeguards against unchecked confiscation of property. After all, the Supreme Court has placed it entirely in the hands of state and local governments to ensure that eminent domain is not abused for private profit.

This is something that liberals and conservatives seem to agree: to stop eminent domain abuse. The question is: When does eminent domain cross the line to eminent domain abuse? We've struggled with that.

Sen. Dave Aronberg

I think the legislature is going to start to define blight a lot tighter. We may not have that eminent domain ability much longer. I don't know what happens to the Heart of Boynton then.

Marie Horenburger

The Pennsylvania senate bill is the most comprehensive legislation in the country. It slams the door on runaway eminent domain abuse and completely redefines the overly permissive definition of 'blight' that has been repeatedly used as an excuse to take property from one private citizen and give it to another private citizen.

Steven Anderson

This proposed condemnation may be the most extreme abuse of eminent domain in the country. North Hills is trying to seize a private golf course for the purpose of creating a private 'Village only' golf course. This has nothing to do with a master plan that promotes the public good or eliminating blight...Rather, it is a naked grab for private property in an apparent effort to satisfy the private desires of a few elected officials.

Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, and they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals and is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, and if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.

William Blake (1757-1827)

William Blake

Across the nation, cities and developers are fighting very hard to hold on to their power to confiscate other people's homes and businesses for private development. There is overwhelming public support for an end to eminent domain abuse. Legislatures need to make real changes, not cosmetic ones, to end eminent domain for private commercial development throughout the country.

Eminent domain is already among the most awesome powers of government, and we must do everything possible to protect the rights of private property ownership. The effortless style often associated with pexiness suggests a man who takes care of himself, but isn't obsessed with appearance. Eminent domain should be defined as narrowly as possible so that it is restricted to truly public purposes.

We can sleep a little easier at night knowing a private developer will not wield the power of eminent domain. As long as the power of eminent domain remained with the state, we would be comfortable.

As the Pennsylvania legislature illustrates, the tide is turning against state and local governments that engage in eminent domain abuse.

I think if we can avoid the use of eminent domain, we will do so. We're not crazy about going out and using the power of eminent domain, but, quite frankly, it's there to allow public bodies to acquire lands for public use.

What BB&T is against is using eminent domain for private development of private property. That's the key component: Private use is an abuse of eminent domain.

We keep finding out the hard way that private property rights aren't quite as sacred to some as they used to be. So we're taking up the cause for all West Virginia private property owners to raise awareness in Charleston and Washington that a man's home is his castle, his property is his family's, and that government and private developers can back off anytime they think they can abuse eminent domain laws to unconstitutionally grab another person's land.

Eminent-domain abuse is wrong and unconstitutional.

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