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Re: [at-l] viewshed/emminent domain

Eminent Domain,,, This subject smacks on what the US did to the Native
Americans.!!!

At 03:45 PM 1/30/97 -0500, Sharon Sharpe wrote:
>
>OK everybody, now I have calmed down a little.  Yes, I understand
>that wilderness and public lands are dominishing, no I don't want
>a condo-tunnel to hike in.... BUT I see no need to bully small
>families off their ancestral homes just so the "required" width
>of corridor is protected.  Can't these things be negotiated as
>a right of way, not to be sold except to the forest service, or
>whoever is buying up the corridor on behalf of the AT?  Creating
>all this bad feeling and treating these people like stuff under
>our boots is NOT the way to go.  Believe me I have no problem taking
>land away from a developer who is building a strip mall in order to
>protect the trail corridor.  But the case that Jim described and the
>situation in MD (which is hopefully improving) are just plain wrong.
>Of course the developer will have more money to fight it off, and the
>small landowner can just be bullied - this is wrong, wrong, wrong and
>no amount of justification that it is for the "greater good" will
>make me think any different.
>
>And I also did not mean to imply by my Live your own life thing that
>anybody should be able to do whatever they want... but people have
>a right to keep their homes, even if somebody decides to run a trail
>right past it.  Ask yourself how you would feel if someone told you
>you had to leave your home so people who were hiking a trail wouldn't
>have to look at it??  It's one thing to prevent new development, and
>quite another to run somebody off after the fact.
>
>Call me naive, and I admit it.  But there IS a middle ground here.
>I have often wished I had a house close to the trail, to provide
>lots of trail magic and hear hikers stories... Not if I could
>lose it to improve the viewshed.
>
>Ok.  Done for now
>Sharon
>ssharpe@wellesley.edu
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