Henrico County risks paying top dollar for land because officials are reluctant to use government authority to force owners to sell, an independent commission has concluded.
"Since the county rarely uses its power of eminent domain, informed landowners realize that the county will not condemn and they will 'game the system' to their advantage," the commission said in a report released yesterday.
So basically the land belongs first to the government and they essentialy just let you live there.
Tuckahoe District Supervisor Patricia S. O'Bannon, who had requested the commission be set up, citing an apparent pattern of the county paying high prices for land owned by developers, said she feels justified in her request.
Really.
Imagine that very high land prices in an area of very high growth and diminishing amounts of land.
Government solution: make them give it to us...
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