{"id":125,"date":"2012-05-22T14:48:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T19:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.alentrix.com\/?p=125"},"modified":"2013-03-07T12:15:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T18:15:06","slug":"mary-alice-divine-of-white-bear-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.alentrix.com\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Mary Alice Divine of White Bear Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to an article about Atina Diffley and her memoir <em>Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works<\/em>, Mary Alice Divine of White Bear Lake seems to think that the only way land changes hands in the U.S. is by way of voluntary transactions (see <a href=\"http:\/\/atinadiffley.com\/turn-here-sweet-corn-dialog-on-urban-planning\/#more-2245\" title=\"http:\/\/atinadiffley.com\/turn-here-sweet-corn-dialog-on-urban-planning\/#more-2245\">http:\/\/atinadiffley.com\/turn-here-sweet-corn-dialog-on-urban-planning\/#more-2245<\/a>).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>LOADED LANGUAGE: Developers can\u2019t build unless landowners sell<\/p>\n<p>While I appreciate those who are passionate about organically grown food and enjoyed reading the profile of Atina Diffley (\u201cSoil sister,\u201d April 18), I think it does a disservice to those who build our homes when a reporter writes that \u201cbulldozers are the villians\u201d and that the Diffleys \u201clost\u201d their farm to suburban development as bulldozers \u201cstrafed the land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bulldozers don\u2019t just come over the horizon and take people\u2019s farms. Somebody has to willingly sell their land to a developer. Then that developer (provided the property is zoned for housing) builds the homes we live in.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know the particulars of this family\u2019s decision, but I do know that no developer, no city, no bulldozer made them sell.<\/p>\n<p>MARY ALICE DIVINE, WHITE BEAR LAKE<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If Ms. Divine is interested in facts rather than mythology, she would do well to acquaint herself with eminent domain and the ad valorem property tax, which are just two popular ways of involuntarily taking property away from people in the U.S. She might also look into the system of sewer and water assessment liens apparently used in the Diffley case, the ultimate effect of which was indeed to make the family sell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to an article about Atina Diffley and her memoir Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works, Mary Alice Divine of White Bear Lake seems to think that the only way land changes hands in the U.S. is by way of voluntary transactions (see http:\/\/atinadiffley.com\/turn-here-sweet-corn-dialog-on-urban-planning\/#more-2245). LOADED LANGUAGE: Developers can\u2019t build unless landowners sell While [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alentrix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alentrix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alentrix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alentrix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alentrix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alentrix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alentrix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alentrix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alentrix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alentrix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}