Denver's infringement on private property rights.

[cmailliard]

Tim is a retired Firefighter. He is one of the best guys I ever worked with. Sucks what's happening to him.

[bigun1962]

I still cant understand WTF? You people have lost sight of the 5 to 1 rule. When you deal with government it is 5 retards to 1 semi normal person. You must remember most lawyers fall into the group of 5.

[hammer03]

Time for him to put it on the market....


For 100x the actual market value. Buy 10x the land somewhere not so close to a cesspool.

[stevelkinevil]

Its stuff like this that makes me think about all the "tin foil hat" comments. If your were to go back 50+ years and tell folks the destruction of our liberties that are taking place you would be no doubt be labeled as crazy "that could never happen in this country"

[SA Friday]

Its stuff like this that makes me think about all the "tin foil hat" comments. If your were to go back 50+ years and tell folks the destruction of our liberties that are taking place you would be no doubt be labeled as crazy "that could never happen in this country"

OMG people.... This is far from original or a new world order development.

Johnson v. M'intosh, 1823 was a ruling from the Marshall SCOTUS and set the stage for govt land grabbing of native American lands to the present day. This has been happening since Columbus accidentally figured out his calculation of earth's circumference was severely F'ed up.

We've evolved from using war to take land we want to using rhetoric and law instead.

[Irving]

That land is probably only a huge liability to him anyway. He should have sold it to developers a long time ago and taken the money to the bank to buy an asset instead.

That being said, this is still bullshit of the highest degree.

[josh7328]

Needs to buy a few pallets of sandbags, a few shovels, and a shit ton of ammo. Dig in and secure his property from the theives.

[bryjcom]

He should do what my boss did when they tried to expand the road onto his front lawn. He went to the city council meeting and said "my name is ---- ---- and I live at ----- ---------- and if one bulldozer touches my fence I'm gonna blow that son of a bitch up! Have a nice day"

They didn't touch his fence....

[Great-Kazoo]

OMG people.... This is far from original or a new world order development.

Johnson v. M'intosh, 1823 was a ruling from the Marshall SCOTUS and set the stage for govt land grabbing of native American lands to the present day. This has been happening since Columbus accidentally figured out his calculation of earth's circumference was severely F'ed up.

We've evolved from using war to take land we want to using rhetoric and law instead.

KaChing!!

Imminent Domain is the card up every state, county, city & towns sleeve. Don't want to see or agree on the price we set, CONDEMNED. or ED is used to removed the legal owner from their property..

[sturn18]

I have been fighting a similar fight with Denver for the last two years, so I can give a little bit of background to what is happening to this guy.

In 2010 Denver re-zoned the entire city. Some pieces of the city kept their original zoning and others were drastically changed. The zoning ordinance had a clause in it that allowed the current owner of a piece of land to revert back to the original zoning within 180 days of the new zoning taking affect. It sounds like Tim was able to get his property reverted to the old zoning, however, the new zoning will take affect if and when Tim sells the property.

So, nobody is trying to take his property (yet) with imminent domain. The problem is that his property value may have decreased considerably based on what the property can be used for by a new owner under the new zoning.

Now for the opinion: I have been to third world countries and can honestly say that the City Government of Denver is every bit as corrupt as anyplace on this planet. It is probably too late for this poor guy to do anything about his situation, but if he can find out who pushed for his land to be zoned as a park (and why) then he may be able to sue the city for damages.

Otherwise he can petition city counsel to re-zone his property to whatever he would like. That would be a huge uphill battle as he doesn't have any influence with the city.