The Liberty Lamp: Libertarian News & Editorials

Here's a follow-up to our August report on the potential corrupt use of Eminent Domain use by the city. For a very brief review, the gist of the issue was that in the post Kelo Decision environment, the city wanted to destroy over 200 homes for private developers. Now, according to the San Diego Union Tribune, approximately that same number of individuals volunteered to help clean up the community of Logan Heights, near downtown San Diego. All told, their work culminated in the repainting of a church and fire station, and low income living facilities. Because of recent buget issues, the city has been unable to maintain many of its own structures.

Though there is no mention of a direct connection between the eminent domain plans from a few months ago, one can definately make a sound argument that these kinds of projects demonstrate well how large numbers of concerned residents and citizens can take care of buisiness on their own without the help of city government. In addition, the newly restored buildings' quality is one less BS excuse shady developers can try to use to steal citizens' property that doesn't belong to them!