{"id":2674,"date":"2005-09-19T22:28:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-19T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2674"},"modified":"2017-12-29T15:00:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T21:00:53","slug":"whos-afraid-of-kelo-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/19\/whos-afraid-of-kelo-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s Afraid of Kelo Backlash?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an era where citizen everywhere are complaining, post-Kelo, about eminent domain, it&#8217;s heartening to see a few noble governments remain unafraid to seize private land to redistribute it as they see fit.  Kudos, <a href=http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/DE48C1FBE4C0B7D18625708100131591?OpenDocument\"\" target=\"_new\">Manchester, Missouri, Mayor Larry Miles<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nHowever, Manchester Mayor Larry Miles said, &#8220;We&#8217;re not going to have anyone holding up the project because he doesn&#8217;t want to sell.&#8221; He noted, &#8220;We have 35 residents who have agreed to sell and we would like to move forward.&#8221;Butler, he said, is standing in the way of progress and change.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor said <b>Pace Properties might have to use eminent domain to obtain all properties it needs<\/b> that front on Manchester Road, except for the Eagle Bank site.<\/p>\n<p>Pace Properties seeks to build a $131.5 million shopping center on the northeast corner of Manchester and Highway 141. It is asking for $29.5 million in tax-increment financing from Manchester and about $17 million from a transportation development district. The center would have 476,719 square feet of commercial space.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It takes a really strong leader to cede the powers of government, and lots of tax money, to private land developers when citizens are standing up for their private property rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an era where citizen everywhere are complaining, post-Kelo, about eminent domain, it&#8217;s heartening to see a few noble governments remain unafraid to seize private land to redistribute it as they see fit. Kudos, Manchester, Missouri, Mayor Larry Miles: However, Manchester Mayor Larry Miles said, &#8220;We&#8217;re not going to have anyone holding up the project [&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-2674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674","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=2674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19206,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions\/19206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}