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Bloomberg Needs New Eminent Domain Talking Point
 Bloomberg
on eminent domain, August 13, 2008 (from
NY1):
..."This is our property. It’s been in my family 75 years,”
said Willets Point business owner Jake Bono. “And basically, the mayor
and [Economic Development Corporation] are trying to rape and rob our land
from us."
But Bloomberg said eminent domain will be used if necessary.
"We can't have a situation where one building owner sits there
and sticks it to the whole city," said Bloomberg...
(Emphasis added)
Sound familiar? (Never mind that in Willets Point there are 200 businesses the
City wants to wipe off the map.)
Bloomberg on eminent domain, August 27, 2006 (from WABC-radio via
Atlantic Yards Report):
Bloomberg continued:
In the case of eminent domain, it is--we have to keep changing our cities, and
build the infrastructure and have the jobs and the housing, and you
can’t just let one person stop all of that. I’m not in
favor of, when most people are against something, doing it. But, for example,
the Nets development, which is what you’re talking about, Daniel, out
in Brooklyn, overwhelmingly favored by people in Brooklyn and throughout the
city, and I think that’s an appropriate thing for use of government powers.
A handful of people, I’m sorry for them, but they will get fairly compensated,
but you can’t just let any one person stop all development,
and that’s when eminent domain comes in.
(Emphasis added)
Never mind there is an entire community fighting the Atlantic Yards project, and
still about 35 residents and 6 businesses, five years into the Atlantic Yards
fight, struggling to defend their homes and businesses, or that there were once
nearly 400 residents in Ratner's footprint prior to busting out the eminent domain
threat or that it is literally impossible for "any one person [to] stop all
development," or "stop all of that."
The Mayor needs a new line. He is right, though, sort of: You can't let one Mayor
"stick it" to the whole city...over and over and over.
Posted: 8.13.08
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