Due to the courts ruling against the South Central Farm, an emergency action has been called by the community in order to save it. The South Central Farmers need community support in order to save their land. The farmers are under the threat of being removed from the land that is rightfully theirs. Now is the time to act!

got deed?

It is not your land, if you don't own it.

I see strawberry and bean fields, as I drive around, but I know the land is not owned by the farmers, and the farmers accept the arrangement.

Take the value of what benefits you have been afforded over the years, of borrowing somenoe else's property, and accept that as your gift.

Like borrowing a car, in exchange of gas, oil, parts and maintenance. You get to keep the miles.

BR

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There's discussion on the linked post.

Posession is 9/10ths of the law, but, this should fall into that last 10th, called the public good.

Also, if you think about it -- the owner could cut a pretty good deal with the City, to trade this plot for a different piece of land, or for more parcels spread out elsewhere, or for cash. The developers don't just build warehouses (in an area already replete with warehouses). They've built a few large retail developments around the city.

I think that the developer is motivated to teach the City "a lesson", to remind the mayor and city council who's pulling the strings.

It's not exactly Polanski and Towne's "Chinatown," but, it's still got a lot of potential plot twists.

This is not about property rights, but about how he got property rights.

Horowitz has never had any legal rights to the land, Judge W. Crispo ruled 3 times against him and the city still gave the land to him anyways and 25% more land! Horowitz stands to profit at the expense of the taxpayers and we will have to foot the bill.

In 1986 the city obtained the land under eminent domain and paid Horowitz 4.7 million dollars, in 1994 the department of public works sold it to LA harbor for 13.3 million.
It's very clear that the city council knew the true worth of this land and that he had no legal right to it.
But the City Council gave it away anyway for only 5.1 million and gave him 25% more land.

There is a difference of 8 million that we, the taxpayers have paid for.

This is why the community is outraged - we are tired of tolerating this form of corporate welfare!

Horowitz knows this sale is illegal and he has an obligation to void the sale.
And as citizens we have an obligation to ensure this happens.

Horowitz and the city should nullify the sale and return the land back to the community use.