[Info-vax] Completely OT: Frank Lloyd Wright

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> Bob Koehler wrote:
>> In article <k69064$3rp$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>>> Dirk Munk wrote:
>>>> I explained to Bill that owning a building does not mean that you have 
>>>> absolute control over it.

>>> And Bill, and I, do not agree with that claim.

I am pretty sure that anywhere in the US, and likely most other
countries, you can't start building nuclear weapons on your
property. So, there is at least one thing you don't control.

>>    But the law does agree with that claim.

> But usually only in special circumstances, and I think most will agree 
> that there can be special circumstances.  Even then, fair compensation 
> should apply.

Two examples that I know about. In one, a hospital wanted to expand,
and the easiest place was into a condominium development. They got
together with the homeowners association and agreed to buy all the
units for something like twice, maybe more, market value. There are
enough comparable properties that it isn't hard to figure out what
market value is. It would have been much more complicated to buy 
each one separately, and very inconvenient to have bought all but
one.

In another case, a shopping complex was being built, and so bought
out the houses in the block, except for one. The last owner, an old
lady with no heirs to inherit, wouldn't sell, even for $1 million.
She knew she wouldn't live much longer, and didn't care about
the money. They built the center around the house.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Macefield

In the end, she willed the house to the developer.

-- glen