Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Man's Home to Be Demolished to Make Room for a Parking Lot" video.

Not to mention that unless this house is in the middle of where they want the parking lot, I see no reason why they couldn't just as easily just build a fence around the lot and buy it later if the kids are willing to sell it. If it is in the middle of the parking lot, then, they should have been working something out years ago.
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Around here, the city owns a stadium that's about to be redone. But, it's the stadium for basically all the football teams in the entire city. The local schools have fields with no grandstands typically and just a field with a track and the bare minimum to play. I'm not sure how a town of only 16,000 can justify having a stadium for probably only one or two teams.
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They approved the school board attorneys to go to court to get the order. This could potentially still fail, but it's rather ridiculous that they didn't think about this earlier, this is not a particularly big town, so why are they trying to seize land without doing any planning for it ahead of time?
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@rogerszmodis This is true, but at that age these buildings often times are a demonstration of the architecture of the time they were built in. That doesn't automatically guarantee that they need to be preserved, but often times there aren't many left and fewer over time.
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Not to mention babies...
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One of the issues with eminent domain is that they don't necessarily pay the fair price of the land. They also don't necessarily buy the entire parcel. My dad owned some property and the city seized the only portion of the property that had any value, leaving him on the hook for the useless portion of the land. Or, they'll condemn the land and pay the deflated rate. And, these things are never done with bidding, so you get what they'll pay, even if what they'll pay isn't an accurate reflection of what would have happened if there were multiple potential buyers.
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