city is forcing a 103-year-old Spokane
woman to sell her parking lot in Seattle to make way for, well, a parking lot. The Seattle City
Council voted Monday to take the lot near the waterfront by eminent domain,
using a portion of the $30 million provided by the state to take care of
parking issues around the waterfront. Hundreds of public parking spaces will be
lost when the state begins dismantling the Alaskan Way Viaduct for the digging
of the tunnel. The construction will last until 2020.
The lot is owned by Spokane resident Myrtle
Woldson. She doesn’t want to sell, so the City Council voted unanimously to use
it’s power of eminent domain to take it after paying Woldson “fair market
value.”
None of the City Council members would speak about their vote, but property
rights advocates call it ridiculous......Read more:
My Take - The right to own
personal property without the state arbitrarily confiscating it is foundation to a free society. This is not
what the founding fathers believed eminent domain was supposed to be about,
irrespective of any Supreme Court ruling.
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