| The Daily Progress Charlottesville, Virginia Editorial Eminent, but inadequate |
OK, so the public interest must very often over-ride private concerns. That's why the right
of eminent domain exists, so that -when necessary - the government can take property
for the public's good when other, less drastic measures have failed.
But surely to goodness there ought to be some measure of fairn
A case in Southwest Virginia illustrates just how unfair government can be.
A husband and wife fulfilled a dream by buying a lll-year-old farmhouse and spending
two years in loving restoration. They spent every moment of their spare time stripping
woodwork, rebuilding walls, painting cabinets.
Now the state wants to raze their home for a new road -one of three new roads, several
new natural gas pipelines and a new electricity line ex-pected to run through that Scenic
region of Virginia.
And what would the state give the couple in trade for their one-of-a-kind restored
farmhouse?
A 40-year-old rancher. Or a doublewide. The offer is as insulting as it is appalling.
The state ought to buy the couple a new plot of land and pay all costs to safely move the
house to it.
LAWRENCEL. MCCONNELL, PUBLISHER
LOU HATTER, MANAGING EDITOR
ANITA HELBURNE, EDlTORIAL PAGE EDITOR
WANDA J. BIRCKHEAD, ADVERTISING DIRECTOR
ROBERT C. ALLEN, CIRCULATION MANAGER
FORDAN T BoNARDI, BUSINESS MANAGER
WARREN F. PlTTS JR., PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR
of eminent domain exists, so that -when necessary - the government can take property
for the public's good when other, less drastic measures have failed.
But surely to goodness there ought to be some measure of fairn
A case in Southwest Virginia illustrates just how unfair government can be.
A husband and wife fulfilled a dream by buying a lll-year-old farmhouse and spending
two years in loving restoration. They spent every moment of their spare time stripping
woodwork, rebuilding walls, painting cabinets.
Now the state wants to raze their home for a new road -one of three new roads, several
new natural gas pipelines and a new electricity line ex-pected to run through that Scenic
region of Virginia.
And what would the state give the couple in trade for their one-of-a-kind restored
farmhouse?
A 40-year-old rancher. Or a doublewide. The offer is as insulting as it is appalling.
The state ought to buy the couple a new plot of land and pay all costs to safely move the
house to it.
LAWRENCEL. MCCONNELL, PUBLISHER
LOU HATTER, MANAGING EDITOR
ANITA HELBURNE, EDlTORIAL PAGE EDITOR
WANDA J. BIRCKHEAD, ADVERTISING DIRECTOR
ROBERT C. ALLEN, CIRCULATION MANAGER
FORDAN T BoNARDI, BUSINESS MANAGER
WARREN F. PlTTS JR., PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR
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