Cypress invokes eminent domain to seize church landCalifornia, the TREND-setter. What a WONDERFUL concept to popularize across the USA... NOT!
ocregister.com
Posted on 5/29/02 12:19 PM Pacific by Retired Chemist
CYPRESS – Cypress on Tuesday became the first Orange County city to use eminent domain to seize church property to make way for a shopping center...
As others have posted previously, this "land grab" reminds of the old Joni Mitchell classic, from http://www.jmdl.com/lyrics/bigyellowtaxi.cfm:
Big Yellow TaxiYou can LISTEN to it here:
by Joni Mitchell
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
They took all the trees
Put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Hey farmer farmer
Put away that DDT now
Give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees
Please!
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Late last night
I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi
Took away my old man
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
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