The power of a city to take over private property by using eminent domain is staggering. In Lakewood, Ohio, voters recently stood up for private property rights and, thankfully, rejected the city’s blatant attempt to commandeer a neighborhood and give it to a developer for stores and condos. You won’t believe the audacity of the city, which tried to label a middle class area as “blighted” in order to justify taking the property. Read the details in this story from the Institute for Justice’s Liberty and Law magazine, April 2004 issue.