“Eminent Absurdity” and the Out of State Origins of Prop 90 on California Ballot

Those who plunder often defend their actions on the basis that it is necessary for the greater good.

Think that your property cannot be seized and turned over to a private party, with the local tax/vote whores simultaneously upzoning it to several times what they pay you for its current use?

Think that your property cannot be downzoned into virtual worthlessness by those same whores?

Think again.

Too bad there are Stalinists like you in the USA. Long before the "the right of communities to steer their own future" was the right of citizens to be secure in their property. This proposition was trying to keep cities from taking people's land and giving it to private developers for Costco's and other developer uses. Progressivism is just code word for "elite-run slave state". Well, some of us peons won't put up with bully creeps like you.

I know of a small parcel owner who is having difficulty with issues of income and health which could be alleviated if he could simply sell his land.

He is in Colton, California, where a 'rolling moratorium' (one which is re-asserted time and time again over months and years)- has made it illegal for him to develop the property and of course no one will buy it while the right to dispose of it is denied to one and all.

He and his family are having a difficult time and if someone like Mr. Rich wants to inhibit entities such as Colton from abusing landowners, in this manner, then I can only offer thanks and cooperation. Colton wants the land for re-sale to private developers for the sake of increasing it's tax base. Apparently there is nothing in the legal system of California which can enable the landowner to demand an end to such an endless moratorium and it's debilating influence on his personal income, health and general well-being. This is person who at 54 years of age must daily engage in strenuous physical labor in a barely sustainable effort to keep his bills current and this while paying various annual business fees on land worth several millions of dollars and which he cannot liquidate or borrow against.

Should he succumb to the mental and physical stress he is undergoing, he and his wife quite possibly will lose their personal residence. This is not an unuusual case. These endless 'moratori' cannot be considered 'taking' our courts have ruled because there is always some possibility that after a period of time (duration unspecified)a return to a status of unconditional rights of ownership. just possibly, might revert to the landowner. Quite an absurd tenent isn't it? Certainly it is one that demonstrates that without a successful 'Prop 90' effort there is nothing that will protect the common law rights of such a landowner from such travesty.

Is this not s parallel to saying "No 'robbery' has occured as the burgular might at some point in the future, consider the return of your missing household items"-?

Let's get sensible about this- The bureaucrats want to curry favor with developers and we know that 'campaign contributions' will be the expected consequence of these 'certain small favors' performed by the local political 'hacks'.

Thanks one and all for your time. The above contains no fiction- It's just a heartfelt expression of concern over a valued friend who is being put into a terrible position by the absence of current legal protection and redress against the abuse he is being subjected to!

I know of a small parcel owner who is having difficulty with issues of income and health which could be alleviated if he could simply sell his land.

He is in Colton, California, where a 'rolling moratorium' (one which is re-asserted time and time again over months and years)- has made it illegal for him to develop the property and of course no one will buy it while the right to dispose of it is denied to one and all.

He and his family are having a difficult time and if someone like Mr. Rich wants to inhibit entities such as Colton from abusing landowners, in this manner, then I can only offer thanks and cooperation. Colton wants the land for re-sale to private developers for the sake of increasing it's tax base. Apparently there is nothing in the legal system of California which can enable the landowner to demand an end to such an endless moratorium and it's debilating influence on his personal income, health and general well-being. This is person who at 54 years of age must daily engage in strenuous physical labor in a barely sustainable effort to keep his bills current and this while paying various annual business fees on land worth several millions of dollars and which he cannot liquidate or borrow against.

Should he succumb to the mental and physical stress he is undergoing, he and his wife quite possibly will lose their personal residence. This is not an unuusual case. These endless 'moratori' cannot be considered 'taking' our courts have ruled because there is always some possibility that after a period of time (duration unspecified)a return to a status of unconditional rights of ownership. just possibly, might revert to the landowner. Quite an absurd tenent isn't it? Certainly it is one that demonstrates that without a successful 'Prop 90' effort there is nothing that will protect the common law rights of such a landowner from such travesty.

Is this not s parallel to saying "No 'robbery' has occured as the burgular might at some point in the future, consider the return of your missing household items"-?

Let's get sensible about this- The bureaucrats want to curry favor with developers and we know that 'campaign contributions' will be the expected consequence of these 'certain small favors' performed by the local political 'hacks'.

Thanks one and all for your time. The above contains no fiction- It's just a heartfelt expression of concern over a valued friend who is being put into a terrible position by the absence of current legal protection and redress against the abuse he is being subjected to!

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