Statist Seattle seizes parking lot via eminent domain, to turn it into a parking lot

[BRUTALITOPS]

SEATTLE — The 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 [said fuck you we'll take it anyway and . .]* voted unanimously to use it’s power of eminent domain to take it after paying Woldson “fair market value.”




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None of the City Council members would speak about their vote, but property rights advocates call it ridiculous.


”In this case, the city of Seattle is using eminent domain to seize a parking lot, so they can use it as a parking lot,” said Glen Morgan of the Freedom Foundation, which is an Olympia-based, conservative, free-market think tank. “There’s no public good in that at all.”


http://q13fox.com/2013/10/22/103-year-old-ordered-to-sell-parking-lot/#axzz2iVbDb83S

*bold emphasis my own​

 

[Billy the Great Khan]

Shocking. Well, ok not eveb slightly

 

[BRUTALITOPS]

I think eminent domain is easily in my top 3 things I hate most.

 

[Billy the Great Khan]

I don't have a problem with it for things like a national emergency or something, but other than that...yeah its just fascism.

 

[BRUTALITOPS]

well as we know, you give an inch, they take a mile.

 

[Airstrip One]

Well, they are going to tear the whole damn thing down and build a (really shitty) tunnel in its place. Not sure what can be done if her lot is standing in the path of the dig...

 

[canceled.2021.1]

Remember the shitty Kelo decision? They never even built anything but stole people's property.

 

[StormX]

Real classy Seattle, trying to steal from a 103-year-old women. Whats next, steal candy away from children?

 

[Dantès]

In this case, the city of Seattle is using eminent domain to seize a parking lot.​

Government at all levels has been doing this for decades. They did it in case after case in building the interstate highway system in the 1950s. George W. Bush did it to build the Rangers a baseball stadium in Texas. The Supreme Court already ruled such action is perfectly and completely legal! What are you going to bitch about next fluoride in the water?

 

[Airstrip One]

It's a viaduct, people. There happens to be a ton of parking beneath the structure, but if it's coming down then it's coming down.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

shoot every council member dead, then let the new council try another vote.

 

[BRUTALITOPS]

sty back on the no fly list again it seems lol