An Eminent Domain High Tide

An Eminent Domain High Tide

Riviera Beach, Fla., wants to displace about 6,000 of its residents and raze their homes to build a yachting and residential complex.

By John-Thor Dahlburg, Times Staff Writer

RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. — It's across the inlet from Palm Beach, but this town — mostly black, blue-collar and with a large industrial and warehouse district — could be a continent away from the Fortune 500 and Rolls-Royce set.

But Riviera Beach's fortunes may soon change.

In what has been called the largest eminent-domain case in the nation, the mayor and other elected leaders want to move about 6,000 residents, tear down their homes and use the emptied 400-acre site to build a waterfront yachting and residential complex for the well-to-do.

The goal, Mayor Michael D. Brown said during a public meeting in September, is to "forever change the landscape" in this municipality of about 32,500. The $1-billion plan, local leaders have said, should generate jobs and haul Riviera Beach's economy out of the doldrums.

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Go figure.......

figure the ethics of this stuff out for themselves. The "liberals" made a sound decision with Kelo.

they dangerously ignore problems that will inevitably destroy the state. The schools are a mess. The infrastructure is third rate. I hope this town gets their yacht club and they choke on it.

Unless they give these people million dollar homes with a waterview in exchange for their trouble, they should rot in hell. But no, they want to move the dusky people off of the "prize" property, and move the fatcats in.

How dare they? This is NOT America....

if you aren't rich enough... we'll take yours and give it to someone "deserving" :mad: