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To: haqihana who wrote (4622)	2/27/2006 9:41:14 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

For example there is the Klamath Basin in Oregon. AT the beginning of the last century people were encouraged to irrigate arid land. Generations of people grew up in that place and based their livelihoods on irrigation agriculture. Several years ago extremist lefties found a federal judge willing to prohibit the use of Klamath water because a fish might be endangered. Wal-Mart wanted to build in LA a few years ago. They found a site they wanted. A church had bought a several acre site to build an expanded church; they raised the money for the land, but had not raised the money for the building. LA moved to take it by eminent domain to give it to Wal-Mart. In a different community recently Wal-Mart worked with the city planner and all of the zoning committee to build a new store. Hours before the city council was set to vote to approve the project the Democrat mayor announced she would veto it unless the Wal-Mart was reduced in size by over 50%. Through zoning, communities control how property owners can use their land. Sometimes through development, governments inflict harm upon property owners. My father owns a warehouse that will be closed off from vehicular traffic when a road is expanded from a side road to an arterial. It might be less valuable when the tenant is forced to relocate to a warehouse that they can use.