{"id":2700,"date":"2005-09-28T02:08:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T02:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2700"},"modified":"2017-12-29T10:29:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T16:29:48","slug":"whos-afraid-of-kelo-backlash-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/28\/whos-afraid-of-kelo-backlash-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Who’s Afraid of Kelo Backlash++"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lindenwood wants city to use eminent domain<\/a><\/p>\n

Lindenwood University officials want the city to use the controversial power of eminent domain to force out a heating and air conditioning business to make way for a new fine and performing arts center.<\/p>\n

Lindenwood President Dennis Spellmann asked city officials Tuesday night to consider using such authority to allow a redevelopment corporation, headed by Spellmann and two other university officials, to purchase a 4-acre site along West Clay Street near the northwest corner of West Clay and First Capitol Drive. The private university has already acquired about 20 acres for the project.<\/p>\n

The 138,000-square-foot, $32 million complex would feature a 1,375-seat auditorium for live performances as well as classrooms, rehearsal studios and office space. University officials hope to begin construction before the end of the year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Local universities seem to have some sort of phallic competition regarding these venuews; UMSL has opened one which continues to struggle with low attendance and debt<\/a>, but the president of Lindenwood wants the city of St. Charles to steal some land to give his university land to build another. Well, not the university, per se, but a redevelopment corporation run by him and a couple of other officials.<\/p>\n

But he’s been pushed to the end of the rope:<\/p>\n

Spellmann said he’s avoided using eminent domain to acquire property in the past but thinks the university has exhausted its options in this case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Spellman’s damn benevolent to avoid using his<\/b><\/i> power of stealing private property, but he’s almost exhausted all options.<\/p>\n

But Spellman fails to, purposefully I would suspect, to take the remaining legitimate option available to the university: Build his boondoggle somewhere else<\/b>. Or don’t bother<\/b>. Two options Spellman doesn’t include in his list of options for confiscating someone else’s land for his own ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lindenwood wants city to use eminent domain Lindenwood University officials want the city to use the controversial power of eminent domain to force out a heating and air conditioning business to make way for a new fine and performing arts center. Lindenwood President Dennis Spellmann asked city officials Tuesday night to consider using such authority […]<\/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-2700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700","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=2700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19187,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions\/19187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}