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October 22, 2005
Condemnation practices under fire
The Journal News by Lan Maniace
From the coverage of the NY State Senate Eminent Domain hearings, a quote from an eminent domain supporter followed by a retort from DDDb's Dan Goldstein:
"Dissident property holders are rarely white knights altruistically seeking to hold on to the family homestead. In my experience, they are shrewd business people with distressed properties looking for economic advantage," said [Mark Weingarten, a White Plains attorney who has represented developers in Westchester and Rockland,].
A critic of eminent domain and a plan to build a sports arena and 17 high rises in Brooklyn took umbrage at use of the term "holdout" to describe people who want to remain in their homes and businesses.
"We don't call the condemning agencies interlopers, thieves or crooks. Until we start doing that, let's call the people what they are — people who are living in their homes," said Daniel Goldstein, spokesman for the group Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn.
Posted by lumi at October 22, 2005 1:31 AM