Eminent domain abuse is taken to new heights (Prospect Heights, actually) in New York City. Now it’s not just “blight” that can justify local bureaucrats and planners to take your property, it’s “underutilization”:

In New York, this creative definition of blight is the new central-planning model. Consultants have also cited “underutilization” in West Harlem, where the city’s Economic Development Corporation wants to take land from private owners and hand it to Columbia University for an expansion project.

Central planners just don’t want to deal with that messy mechanism called a free market.