npub1620mckuya5l50wt5qhkqp0yenc0pfhyajk4cwmw9nga6lq9tp6aqswa82q (npub1620…a82q) oh it's already happening in the Los Angeles area.
On the other side of the Angeles National Forest, there are desert land where there has been a community of people who have lived in trailers and log or stone cabins for decades. This land is pretty worthless; it's too dry to farm profitably, too far away from anything important to develop. After years of nobody caring about what they did out there, the County of Los Angeles suddenly started hitting these landowners with tons of nuisance abatement fines and demands that they bring their land up to code by hooking up to county utilities (the nearest hookup could be as far away as 30 miles, and cost more than the land was worth).
Then, even if they could pay the fine and bring the land up to code (and most of them couldn't), they'd get an additional, outrageously high bill for legal fees from Silver & Wright, their land would go into receivership, and then the County would take it over.
I couldn't understand why LA County was doing this for the longest time, and then it hit me---they wanted the land for solar farms. Rather than take it by eminent domain, which looks bad, they hired Silver & Wright to make the landowners look like dirty, irresponsible people that ruined their neighbors' enjoyment of their own land, and just took it away from them. Much cheaper than eminent domain.
Here's an article about the government taking land from a variety of people all over the state; it's not the article specifically about the Angeles National Forest area, but it lays it out pretty clearly:
https://californialocal.com/localnews/statewide/ca/article/show/4700-code-violations-fees-fines-california-cities/
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