I had the city council vote to condemn my house one day. Just out of the blue I have a note taped to my door telling me the house will be condemned by eminent domain. The reason, after two years of fighting to finally find out, was a new council member was in a canoe club and didn’t like looking at the houses from the river. They wanted to “preserve” the nature. Once those emails were dug up I kept the house. I eventually sold the house and property to a developer and now there is a gigantic house on the river front property where my old dump use to be and those jerks get to look at it all day long.
I love a story with a happy ending.