More eminent domain abuse in New Jersey
Posted on May 13th, 2008 by bile Categories and Tags: Uncategorized, 5th Amendment, Adam Schneider, bureaucracy, confiscation, economics, eminent domain, freedom, injustice, liberty, Lillian, London, Louis T. Anzalone, Marine Terrace, New Jersey, Ocean Terrace, politics, property, Seaview Avenue Alliance, your rights 2 Comments »LONG BRANCH - Members of the Marine Terrace, Ocean Terrace, Seaview Avenue Alliance will join attorneys Wednesday in Trenton in the next skirmish of their years-long battle to remain in their homes, which Long Branch is trying to acquire through eminent domain.
Homeowner Louis T. Anzalone will be 91 at the end of the month. His wife, Lillian, already is 91, and they are the most senior residents of their oceanfront neighborhood. They will fight on, despite their hope that their twilight years would be spent differently.
“Everything depends on what these clowns are going to do to us,” said the plain-spoken Anzalone. “I’m just thinking of what our lives are going to be involved in. At 91, how many more years do I have? I wanted to have a little bit of peace at this age.”
The Anzalones will be in the courtroom Wednesday.
“It is an atrocity what they are doing,” he said of the forces that support eminent domain.
Mayor Adam Schneider, who has been demonized by eminent domain opponents, said his position is unchanged since the city decided to acquire the homes in the MTOTSA section for the second phase of Beachfront North, a proposed luxury condominium community.
Rich people want a beach front view, politicians want more tax money and have developer friends so those who have owned their property for years have it designated as blight by the town and taken from them at the threat of violence. Too bad after Kelo v. New London this really can’t be labeled “abuse” of eminent domain but expected behavior.
