[extropy-chat] Fill it in a pave it over

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Dan Clemmensen <dgc at cox.net> wrote:
> Adrian Tymes wrote:
> >Assuming you could buy out the entire city, or most of it.  While
> the
> >government may have the legal right to force the sales (see recent
> >eminent domain cases), even the US federal government might have a
> hard
> >time coming up with that much money (without giving many people so
> >little that it could credibly be called far below fair value/market
> >price).
> >
> No need to buy out anything. title for each parcel remains with each 
> property holder.
> The government just piles somewhere between three and twenty feet of 
> gravel on top.
> You lose the value of your improvements, but in a great many cases
> you 
> already lost
> most of the value due to flood damage.

Altering property without the property owners' permission seems even
more legally objectionable.  Which is not to say it wouldn't otherwise
be a good idea; I'm just worried it might be rejected by the courts
(and liability for it would prevent the government from doing it).