Floor Statements
Floor Statement on H.R. 4772, the Private Property Rights Implementation Act of 2006
Washington, DC,
September 28, 2006
Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
Mr. Speaker, this bill deals with when a government exercises zoning power and the big developer disagrees with that, what happens. It says you go into Federal court right away, which is more expensive for the local government to defend, and which is unconstitutional, as I mentioned a few minutes ago, because you have to go through the State remedy. But second of all, it changes the substantive law to enable the developer to say that any reduction in his use of the property, that says you cannot have more than X number of houses on the property or you cannot destroy all the wetlands on the property, anything that will help preserve the local communities, all the regulations it would depend on to preserve property values, to preserve local communities, they are all gone because you have to pay for them and no local government is going to pay for them. So nobody is going to be able to go to their local zoning board and complain. They will have to go to the Supreme Court, which will not have time for them. |