As suburban areas are built out to the saturation point in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, there is a temptation for municipal officials concerned with locating new public or quasi-public facilities to look to existing public lands as an alternative to condemnation.
This temptation may heighten in the atmosphere of legislative backlash resulting from the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Kelo v. City of New London, No. 04-108, October Term, 2004 (U.S. June 23, 2005). (While the Supreme Court in Kelo approved a public taking that benefits private interests, legislatures throughout the United States have introduced bills intended to limit the exercise of the power of eminent domain.)
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