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Originally Posted by rocketphish
There should be a provision in the Heritage Act that forces the City to A) compensate the landowner for the immediate drop in value of their site, or B) expropriate any new heritage site at pre-heritage value. If the City wants the heritage building, fine, but it should not be doing harm while doing so.
Individuals and corporations affected negatively by a government's free trade agreements can sue the government for damages. Should the same thing be allowed in heritage cases?
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Totally agree with your thoughts. I'm sure that if that was the case, the groups/people in favour of heritage designations may not be so enthusiastic.
What I find interesting is that they want to preserve a certain era in the City building phases, yet many of the buildings they want to preserve are not the original buildings on a property.
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