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Public domain issues are thorny at best. With the booming growth in the Phoenix metro area, you hear about it all the time and it begins to frustrate people. Honestly, in a society, there are times we have to make sacrifices for the good of the community as a whole. But so often, in these cases, they just want to widen a road and not put a curve it it or slap up yet another Walgreens and to do so they take the land out from a tax-paying citizen. In addition, if the owner refuses to sell, and the land is then condemned, the owner may potentially receive less compensation - ah, extortion! Yes, there are occations when governments need the ability to take land, but at least in Phoenix it is often overused.
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