The Belgian Port of Antwerp needed to expand. But Belgium has a policy that any greenfield development must be offset by set-asides of already developed land. So the residents of an entire town were forcibly evicted and their town declared a “new nature preserve.”
The buildings in the town were not leveled, and instead planners are allowing them to decay through “natural reclamation.” This has led to a lot of graffiti, which happens to be the subject of the news article that is linked to above.
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Portland in particular loves to brag that it is a European city, so don’t be surprised if the Keep-Portland-Weird crowd are the first in America to come up with a zero-net-development policy.
I don’t really know where to start. Belgian property takings for a nature preserve, meets Portland UGB (example of costing developers extra $$$). Apples and oranges, to say the least.
“How long before such a policy makes its way to the western hemisphere?”
As soon as we convince the supreme court to overturn almost a century of precedent re: takings. Every now a then Mr. O’Toole stoops really low. If we want to talk about the negative impacts of UGB’s, fine. Talk about stupid policies in Europe, fine. But this post is conservative fear mongering at it’s finest.
Mr. O’Toole leave this boogy man kicking you out of your home bs to Sean Hannity. You’re smarter and better than this.
p.s. There was an interesting local NPR piece on eminent domain for new highways and the Keystone pipeline in TX recently. Do you have any problem of the boogy man forcibly buying (not at the market price, but “just compensation”) for your darling pipeline and highways?
Bennett,
I believe Mr. O’Toole’s screed addressed the absurdities of Zero-net development policies. Eminent domain, while tangential to the topic, was not actually the topic of the rant.
Tomato Tomaaato. Forcibly removing people from their property is what has his panties in a wad.
So Europeans did that to Native Americans.
Just as the term “free market” is just another way of describing “shoplifting”.
Antiplanner wrote:
“The Belgian Port of Antwerp needed to expand. But Belgium has a policy that any greenfield development must be offset by set-asides of already developed land. So the residents of an entire town were forcibly evicted and their town declared a “new nature preserve.—
From the comments:
“The village of Doel was not not claimed as a nature preserve. It is intended to be dock area since 1999, but development has not started yet. There were no forced evictions. You should also be aware that less than a kilometer away there is a nuclear power plant (since the sixties). I am not sure but I think that safety reasons played a large role in condemning this village. “
If in fact the evacuation of Doel was to obtain more land for future port expansion, then The Antiplanner is getting into deep Wendell Cox territory, e.g., failing to tell the complete story. Over the years Cox has turned failing to tell the complete story into his own patented and quite bizarre art form.
That’s not surprising, Cox and O’Toole are both frauds.
I really don’t see this as any sort of rant or screed. It is a blog post, not an Op/Ed piece, and seems to be rather typical of many such blogs.
I would agree that you need to be careful in extrapolating from overseas news, especially about legal information. Other countries have different legal systems, and between that and poor translation, it is not easy to extrapolate to US legal parallels.
It’s below a standard usually seen here.
How long before such a policy makes its way to the western hemisphere?
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Srsly? This is what you come up with? Srsly? Did AFP promise its donors it would put out 100k words in solidarity, quality be d*mned?
Come now.
DS
Aaaannnnnnddd! The planner sweeps in, his piercing eyes taking in the next twenty years, as he holds the magnificent METRO Fifty Year Plan! His biting wit demolishes his opponents’ arguments, as they flee crying in terror!
Not.
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Ha ha, I don’t often agree with Dan, but he has made me alter my thinking on some issues, and lines like this are just effing hilarious…
;o)
DS
No disrespect intended to Randal, btw.
Allow me to take the wind out of Danny Boy’s sails with this classic:
“Obvious and transparent stalker sockpuppets spewing thoughts-by-misdosage aside…”
I suppose he can fill in the rest with the “hand-flapping” or “conflating” comment of his choice.
All one needs to do is look at the date and timestamp of Dan’s comment to realize he’s under the influence of something; I only hope he hit the bong on 4/20 and not another bottle of Merlot as he so often does before posting.
The article about the growing glaciers in the Himalayas must have sent him over the edge.
Gotta love the Urban Dictionary entry for “srsly”:
Srsly, Dan: STFU.
I like to track which gullibles need to believe half-truths. If you are gullible enough to think that one story about a couple glaciers shrinking means THERE AINT NO GLOBUL WARMIN
sigh…
I like to track which gullibles need to believe half-truths. If you are gullible enough to think that one story about a couple glaciers shrinking means THERE AINT NO GLOBUL WARMIN then there is nothing rational to do but chuckle.
Srsly. Reality: don’t take it personally!
DS
All one needs to do is look at the date and timestamp of Dan’s comment to realize he’s under the influence of something
This one’s pretty easy. Dan’s probably under the influence of the following:
1. The heavy burden of having to plan every detail of every Aurora resident (narcissism).
2. Some good Rocky Mountain ganja
3. A bottle of mixed use Merlot
4. Staring at himself in awe in the mirror, a diploma from the University of Dan, declaring him to have a PHD in everything, framed above the glass.
That actually sound pretty good to me. Lord knows Aurora need some better planning. Merlot and Rocky Mtn ganja is like pb&j. And you got to have some confidence too. Dan’s livin’ the dream 😉
Lame, small-hands-waving attempts to mischaracterize and marginalize notwithstanding, the Aurora warehouse economy was being kept afloat during the Great Recession by grow ops in warehouses.
Too bad the Feds decided that their Drug War spending needed to be validated, and so they stepped in and stopped banking ops for MMJ and slashed legit grow ops.
DS
The irony here? I actually agree with Dan for once and emphatically oppose the Drug War. And no, I don’t smoke, or drink Merlot, for that matter 🙂
Henry David Thoreau, said over 150 years ago that towns should set aside land for nature.
This type of behavior is not absent from the US. See Eastwick, Philadelphia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastwick,_Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania