Senseless in Seattle

[sfsteves]

According to KCPQ-TV (Seattle), the Seattle City Council voted in October to seize a waterfront parking lot by eminent domain from the 103-year-old owner after negotiations to buy the property on the open market broke down.
The state is funding a six-year tunnel-digging project in the area, and the city has decided it needs the property for not-yet-specified uses ... except that in one part of the property, the city said it plans to operate a parking lot.

 

[kashmir]

"Big Yellow Taxi"

By Joni Mitchell

(Graham Nash's ex-girlfriend)
They paved paradise And put up a parking lot With a pink hotel, a boutique And a swinging hot SPOT Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got ‘Til it's gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot
They took all the trees And put them in a tree museum Then they charged the people A dollar and a half just to see 'em Don't it always seem to go, That you don't know what you've got ‘Til it's gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot
Hey farmer, farmer Put away that DDT now Give me spots on my apples But LEAVE me the birds and the bees Please! Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got ‘Til its gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot
Late last night I heard the screen door slam And a big yellow taxi Come and took away my old man Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got ‘Til it's gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot
I said Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got ‘Til it's gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot
They paved paradise And put up a parking lot They paved paradise And put up a parking lot

 

[davidintexas]

Oh yeah. Go Joni!

 

[plateauguy]

This is Washington, we don't make sense, we make taxes!

 

[brian64]

The “eminent domain” scam strikes again. Organized crime has many a ploy up their sleeve.

They took all the trees And put them in a tree museum Then they charged the people A dollar and a half just to see 'em

Now there’s an inflation example for you...a tree museum ticket would be around 10X that these days...plus parking fees of course.

 

[crazypipe]

What a shame ,that sucks :evil:

 

[hunterwold1]

Sad news! Like they need another parking lot on the waterfront. . .

 

[agnosticpipe]

Ah yes, it's the "Golden Rule" being applied again. Those with the gold, make the rules.