Cape Cod National Seashore Condemnation Blight

Federal agencies pressure local communities to adopt lower density zoning districts in order to drive down federal government's land acquisition costs – District Court says "no way."

"It would be manifestly unjust to permit a public authority to depreciate property values … and then to take advantage of this depression in the price which it must pay for the property."  United States v. Virginia Electric Co., 375 U.S. 624 at 636, 81 S. Ct. 784 at 792 (1960).
(quotation by the court in U.S. v Certain Lands in Truro, Mass).

United States v Certain Lands in Truro, Mass, 476 F. Supp. 1031 (DC Mass 1979)

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