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Article: Don't dismiss private property rights Cape Henry property owners aren't asking taxpayers to pay.(Local)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- April 1, 2009
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The editorial board of The Pilot recently wrote that Cape Henry Beach properties located in Virginia Beach belong, by deed, to private owners. Yet, amazingly, that same opinion stated that such ownership is a mere technicality regarding private property rights.
It appears the normally civic-minded folks on the editorial board have relied on incomplete information . This is alarming on an issue as important as citizens' private property rights and a government that uses eminent domain against those rights.
Our deeds to these Cape Henry beaches, in fact, are unique in the commonwealth, date back to pre-Colonial times and have a documented historic chain of ...