Unintended Consequences
“The city’s threat of taking the Old Dominion Boat Club’s (ODBC) parking lot through eminent domain has resulted in the two parties tentatively agreeing to a total land swap of essentially all of the boat club’s property for the Beachcomber property at the foot of Prince Street. What has resulted is a poorly thought out plan that will adversely affect others and cost both the city and the boat club additional revenues over the long run. Essentially the threat of eminent domain will produce a pejorative “domino effect” which is not in the best interests of the city, the ODBC or we the citizenry.”
Connection Newspapers 16 June 2014.