Re: (rshsdepot) RE: Seligman, AZ Harvey House demolition

[luckyshow_@_mindspring.com]

eminent domain, eminent domain...they use it now to take people's property to build shopping malls and private office building parking lots and the Supreme Court okayed such taking...here we are talking about property they willnever actually use agaiin....eminent domain, just take it.....if the shed in the backyard was somehow part of a freed slave cemetery, do you think you'd have much right to destroy it and throw it on the garbage dump?
- -----Original Message-----
>From: "Alexander D. Mitchell IV" <lner4472_@_bcpl.net>
>Sent: Apr 16, 2008 9:26 AM
>To: rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net
>Subject: (rshsdepot) RE: Seligman, AZ Harvey House demolition
>
>Gentlemen and others:
>
>One important reminder in all the rants about preservation of this building:
>
>The locals in Seligman had been given FIFTEEN YEARS to attempt 
>preservation--FAR longer than most such proposals get.  They still ultimately 
>failed to secure the critical mass of enthusiasm and monies necessary for this 
>project.  Ultimately, this falls under the banner of "Ya can't save 
>everything".
>
>As for saving everything "historic", sadly we have this little concept in the 
>USA called "property rights".  Imagine if someone declared your old backyard 
>shed or old car "historic" and thus prevented you from demolishing/scrapping 
>it, while still mandating that you maintain said object at your own cost.  
>These kind of battles are fought almost every day in city and state planning 
>committees and historic-preservation committees, as property owners who 
>planned to build a hotel, parking garage, or development are told that they 
>can't just knock down that old barn or office building because someone calls 
>it "historic" or "a landmark".
>
>Alexander D. Mitchell IV
>
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