• brygphilomena@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    She doesn’t want the house, she has no obligation to pay for it or be given an adjacent lot. She is the one that should be sueing instead. She has every right to be made whole at the developers expense.

    What I mean by that, is that since she doesn’t want the house the developer is on the hook to demolish it and restore the land to its former condition.

    Taking then adjacent land may not even be equitable. It could be less desirable, more difficult to build on, have different drainage, inaccessible without going through an easement. Any number of things.

    The developers should also be in the hook for the increased property taxes.