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Article: Measure 39: No.(Editorials)(Oregon rarely sees abuses of eminent domain)(Editorial)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- October 9, 2006
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Byline: The Register-Guard
E l e c t i o n 2 0 0 6
Anyone who has done much home repair knows there's at least one rarely used tool in the garage that once in a long while is essential to getting the job done.
For local governments, that tool is the use of condemnation for economic development.
Governments often use the power of eminent domain to buy private land for roads, sewer pipelines, parks and public buildings. But they rarely condemn land in order to hand it over to another property owner for commercial development.
In most communities, eminent domain is used for economic development only as a last resort - when officials can find no other way to ...