re: House across from Walk On's in Zachary

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precedent /pres'i-d?nt/ noun An act or instance that may be used as an example in dealing with subsequent similar instances. A judicial decision that is binding on other equal or lower courts in the same jurisdiction as to its conclusion on a point of law, and may also be persuasive to courts in other jurisdictions, in subsequent cases involving sufficiently similar facts.

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So based on precedent, they DID rule MANY times that taking for a public road is allowed no matter what. That’s exactly what was done here. The development could have worked with the road as it was.

The public benefit is whatever the local government decides it is. They decided that they needed to control traffic better to that area and added the roundabout. Period, end of story for that issue. They could take that guys house and build a Walgreens on his land if the municipality really wanted to under Kelo.