After exchanging emails with Brendan Long, the attorney for the city of Topeka, he sent me a link to the proposed redevelopment plans made by the city of Topeka for the college hill area:
http://www.topeka.org/pdfs/Washburn_Lane.pdf
Though the proposed retail redevelopment on this was limited to South of 15th street, this could be enough to come into compliance with Kelo.
Though I still believe that eminent domain in this case would be wrong, the city might have also been legally covered by having a plan in place for the nearby area, and in which the city was saying that something did in fact need to be done.
Fortunately, the interested parties have come to an agreement, and we don't have to find out!
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new post at reasonanyone.blogspot.com re: Evangelical Climate Change Initiative.
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