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    • 'Renewal' not good for Rainier Valley

      Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer

      An excellent guest editorial in the Seattle PI today described an eminent domain plan I'd heard nothing about - and Mayor "I never met a developer I wouldn't kiss" Nickels is likely behind it. And of course I933 does nothing to stop this kind of Eminent Domain - vote no on 933: Last resort simply means if you're unwilling to sell, you're gone. Just as misleading, the city emphasizes the below-average incomes and above-average poverty and crime rates that exist in Rainier Valley to justify eminent domain. But that's a smoke screen because those problems have absolutely nothing to do with many of the properties the city wants to demolish. Moreover, the city has legitimate tools for dealing with crime and poverty. It can increase police presence or fund neighborhood watch programs. It can offer tax credits for small businesses.

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    • Initiative 933 applies to personal property

      Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times

      A prominent Seattle attorney issued a report Wednesday warning that that provision of I-933 could undermine state and local rules regulating everything from food safety and auto emissions to professional qualifications for doctors and accountants. Hugh Spitzer, a partner in a large Seattle law firm who also teaches law at the University of Washington, said much of the impact would depend on how courts interpret the initiative if it passes next month. "There would be years of litigation over what it means," he said.

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    • Checking the 'reality' of I-933

      Posted by newscloud from Seattle Post-Intelligencer

      The way our system works, title to the things that are owned by everyone sits with government as trustee of those resources for our collective benefit. That trustee is charged with managing and maintaining our interests. Translation: Ensuring we have clean breathable air, sufficient and clean water and wild populations that can support a healthy ecosystem. This is a task government cannot give away and a responsibility it may not shirk. Nothing here is new. That the sovereign owns the wildlife and the water is an ancient principle virtually unchanged since a system of law traveled here on the Mayflower.

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