Lawmakers should have toughened California law to make it clear that what happened in Connecticut — where a city forced a homeowner to sell her property for what elected officials saw as a more desirable private development — could not happen here. They passed a few laws to make private-to-private eminent domain harder, but they didn't remove the threat.http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-ed-propositions7-2008jun07,0,6741313.story
