City council in Texas furious they cannot just take man's land who is rich enough to fight them

[ABX]

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Last week the Dallas City Council met to discuss their current agenda. Item #11 involved an eminent domain case where the city of Dallas was attempting to take the land from a property owner. The council has been asked to settle a case out of court with the land owner.

Ms. Sandy Greyson, District 12 (nonpartisan), is furious that the city cannot simply take this man's land. She tells Mayor Michael S. Rawlings it isn't fair to the city that this man has enough money to defend his property in court. She even admits that "ordinary people" who "cannot afford to fight the city of Dallas" end up losing their property, which makes it easier for the city......

https://www.sott.net/article/352989-City-council-in-Texas-furious-they-cannot-just-take-mans-land-who-is-rich-enough-to-fight-them

[ABX]

To put this in a bit of perspective, the cities around Dallas are attempting to run waterlines all the way as far away as Lake Palestine south of Tyler, about 100 miles away and are making moves on landowners not even in their own county. This has been an ongoing battle with several of the big lakes around this area. They don't want to run down their local lakes so they think they can source water from Lake Palestine, Lake of the Pines, Big Cypress, etc, over 100 miles away and several counties separated. Glad some have the means to stand up to this corruption.

[corbe]

   We had something like this in my Local Community, My small town went up against SAWS (San Antonio Water System) to keep them away from Canyon Lake water as they,  (Spurs Fans) continue to populate north along US 281, ever so slowly migrating toward the water, moving their jurisdiction along the way.  We lost that case in Appellate Court and my City's lead Attorney on that case Got a job with SAWS 2 months later.
 
   These same District Courts (NO,La) just reinstated the 'Can Ban' (no beer w/tubing TX rivers within our 'jurisdiction'), superseding the TX Constitution based on a 40 year old TX Sodomy Law.

   Keep the Faith, Texans, Abbott is the Man we Need Now!

Due Process
WITH NICK ROGERS

Third Court of Appeals Rules in
Favor of City in Can-Ban Case

After lingering in the Third Court of Appeals for
more than two years, the City of New Braunfels
has won the right to continue enforcing the
disposable container and cooler ordinances.
Citing a 1994 case regarding the now
defunct state sodomy law, the Court of
Appeals reversed a lower district court’s ruling
that the ordinances were unconstitutional. The
Third Court justices ruled that the lower court
was not the proper jurisdiction to hear a case
on criminal ordinances.
The Third Court of Appeals used as
precedent Texas v. Morales, where the State
Supreme Court ruled that a “court of equity”
was not the proper jurisdiction to fight the
constitutionality of the sodomy law because
the law was of a criminal nature. The U.S.
Supreme Court struck down sodomy laws in
2003 in a case stemming from a 1998 arrest
under the Texas law.

https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9953ef_a22e03b3a8b54fdc90b69ba0c520c620.pdf

[Wingnut]

Ms. Sandy Greyson.    Wow. There is something very wrong with her.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Ms. Sandy Greyson.    Wow. There is something very wrong with her.

see https://ballotpedia.org/Sandy_Greyson

Says she is nonpartisan. 

This political hack has been in and out of this position for 20 years. She likely thinks she owns the place.

Someone needs to give her a message that she works for the voters, and her job is not to confront them.

[driftdiver]

We really need to bring back tar and feathers.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

There are a number of eminent domain bills being taken up by the current Texas Legislature Session.

https://legiscan.com/gaits/search?state=TX&keyword=eminent

The most important one is SB 740 741 and 742 which overhauls the entire ED process to have less favoritism for companies and government jurisdictions, and more for private landowners.

More information on background is here.  http://www.texansforpropertyrights.com/legislative-efforts/

Any person who owns property should take an interest and contact their elected official to support the effort.