Blunt launches EDTF website.

Article here.

Keep up with developments of the Missouri Eminent Domain Task Force here.

Here are my suggestions I sent them via this page:

I realize that an outright ban on the exercise of eminent domain isn't going to happen in my lifetime, but I do have a couple of suggestions for legislating a definition of "just compensation."

1. A lifetime lease given to the owner of any owner-occupied dwelling taken by eminent domain.

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2. In addition to the "fair market value" of a property, the government must also offer to move the house to whatever new location the owner finds.

3. Legislating a definition of "just compensation" in eminent domain cases, spelled out in terms of multiples of the property's assessed value, with the minimum being ten or twenty times the assessed value. While that may sound expensive, the government will be less likely to take property it doesn't have a legitimate NEED for if it has to pay such a cost.