Property Grab At Hollywood's Hottest Intersection

It's not okay for government to evict property owners in the name of "over-reaching redevelopment," a Los Angeles Times editorial warns.

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March 14, 2006, 12:00 PM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"Now that the area around Hollywood's famous intersection is hot again, "along comes the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency to declare the area 'blighted' and evict property owners...[to] build a luxury hotel...It's a heavy-handed government grab for private property â€" to make way for a private project...The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that government can take private property from one person and give it to another. The prospect is chilling, and over-reaching redevelopment is now a greater danger...The government can't simply kick out property owners just because it likes gardens better than warehouses, or big developers better than luggage-store owners."

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