Government could dictate how property owners use their land.

[Warph]

Updated December 16, 2009
Not So Private Property?: Endangered Species Pose Problems for Landowners

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/16/private-property-endangered-species-pose-problems-landowners/

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As much as 40 percent of all land in the United States is already under some form of government control or ownership -- 800 million to 900 million acres out of America's total 2.2 billion acres.

The government now appears poised to wield greater control over private property on a number of fronts. The battle over private property rights has intensified since 2005, when the Supreme Court ruled in the Kelo v. City of New London case that the government could take property from one group of private landowners and give it to another.

Outraged over that ruling and a series of recent efforts by government to wield greater control over private property, citizens are fighting back. Fox News' Shannon Bream takes a fair and balanced look at the controversy in a three-part series.


Private Property Rights
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[Sarah]

This is also over that clean water act where they're trying to regulation every stream, every prairie pothole, every puddle, everything. 

[Varmit]

This really shouldn't come as a big suprise.  The gov't has been railing against private property rights for years.

[Diane Amberg]

Had a case like that here recently. Wilmington lost. But we do have plenty of zoning laws to keep heavy industry in areas set aside for them. One law  is changing .People will again be able to have a small flock of chickens for their own use on property of 1/2 acre or more. No pigs.