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Article: Eminent domain becomes point of controversy: senator proposes expanding rights for property owners.(issue of private property rights)
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- San Diego Business Journal
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- June 5, 2006
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Petco Park--credited for the renaissance now taking place in Downtown San Diego--also is used as an example of what might not have happened had the city's powers of eminent domain been weakened.
The simmering debate over a local municipality's right to seize private property for the public good is now on full boil in San Diego, and elsewhere in California, as ballot initiatives and legislative bills are being proposed to further bolster private property rights.
California's eminent domain laws, considered relatively strict by national standards, requires that seized property must be designated as blighted. But Sen. Christine Kehoe, D-San Diego, wants to ...