>The Institute for Justice, which you keep quoting, is in tight coordination
>with the Oregon-style regulatory takings movement, because they know the
>more tools of land management they eliminate for local governments, the more
>uncontested sprawl and high-profit development they can promote.
Except that eminent domain is more typically used to promote high-profit development than the kind of high-minded development you're talking about.
For a guy who's obsessed with actual legislation, and who works for a group that presents itself as a think-tank for progressive state legislators, you're not paying much attention to the actual legislative langauge.
Doug