The Mackinac Center’s July 18 property rights forum in Bay
City, Mich., featured three speakers:
Mackinac Center Senior Legal Analyst Patrick J. Wright; Nancy Kurdziel,
president of Prime Housing Inc.; and Russ Harding, senior environmental policy analyst at the Mackinac Center and a former head of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality.
Harding discussed regulatory takings, a form of
eminent domain in which government regulations deprive private property owners
of part of the value of their land. As Harding points out in the video
excerpt posted above, the government typically does not compensate property
owners for this loss, even though compensation is required under the state and federal constitutions. The video segment is 6 minutes and 4 seconds long. (QuickTime playback requires QuickTime 7.0 or higher.)
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An excerpt of Nancy Kurdziel’s presentation will be posted as the
Mackinac Center’s next Current Comment.
Russ Harding on regulatory takings (Apple QuickTime)
Russ Harding on regulatory takings (Windows Media Player)
