{"id":2457,"date":"2005-07-02T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-02T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2457"},"modified":"2018-02-18T05:36:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T11:36:54","slug":"kelover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/02\/kelover\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2005\/07\/02\/BAGO4DI6GJ1.DTL\" target=\"_new\">City forces out 2 downtown businesses: Action follows high court ruling on eminent domain<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last week&#8217;s U.S. Supreme Court ruling approving a Connecticut city&#8217;s plan to take private land by eminent domain may seem far away.<\/p>\n<p>But to John Revelli, whose family has operated a tire shop near downtown Oakland for decades, the implications hit home on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>A team of contractors hired by the city of Oakland packed the contents of his small auto shop in a moving van and evicted Revelli from the property his family has owned since 1949.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have the perfect location; my customers who work downtown can drop off their cars and walk back here,&#8221; said Revelli, 65, pointing at the nearby high- rises. &#8220;The city is taking it all away from me to give someone else. It&#8217;s not fair.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The city of Oakland, using eminent domain, seized Revelli Tire and the adjacent property, owner-operated Autohouse, on 20th Street between Telegraph and San Pablo avenues on Friday and evicted the longtime property owners, who have refused to sell to clear the way for a large housing development. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not fair, but late trends in our governance indicate that it&#8217;s more fair for some than others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City forces out 2 downtown businesses: Action follows high court ruling on eminent domain: Last week&#8217;s U.S. Supreme Court ruling approving a Connecticut city&#8217;s plan to take private land by eminent domain may seem far away. But to John Revelli, whose family has operated a tire shop near downtown Oakland for decades, the implications hit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19579,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457\/revisions\/19579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}