The Commies Are Coming…
This little parcel of land in Gyldenløwes gate 15 was just “bought” (or stolen) by Oslo municipality for 60000 NOK ($7600), in a process called expropriation.
The action was justified by the environment commissioner Lan Marie Nguyen Berg stating that green areas are important to create a better city, and this apparently is a “secret” park.
The owner of the property Erik Bøhler wanted 70 million NOK ($8800000) for it, so I guess he is not so pleased with less than a Bitcoin as payment.
As you can it is a cozy little plot of land, with some flowers and a blood beech, but it is far too small to be used as a public park. Also, Norway's biggest park, Frogerparken, lies almost just around the corner. It is also close to a lot of other parks within a short walking distance (e.g. The Palace Park). In my opinion, private property rights should not be violated, except for in extreme circumstances, and then the owner should be fully compensated.
When the politicians now see that they can basically steal your property and get away with it: Guess what? They are going to continue doing just that.
On the bright side, the Summer is coming too...
Here are some nubile flowers from the Palace Park:
Found it referenced here (Norwegian article): https://www.dagsavisen.no/oslo/byradet-vil-betale-60-000-for-denne-hagen-eieren-krever-70-millioner-1.1133396
If I understand the article correctly, they have not "bought" the property for 60 kNOK, what has happened is that the municipality has made a decition to do the expropriation thing. There will for sure be a court case, both to establish the value and to establish if the municipality has legal rights to do expropriation here.
As far as I can understand, the land has already been regulated as "friområde" for a longer time, meaning that the public already today is legally free to visit this garden - and the property owner has already accepted this.
The article says nothing about the historic reasons for the regulation, but such regulation plans are typically made like this: a property developer buys a larger piece of land with the purpose to build houses and sell to the public for a profit.
The property developer do take some risk when buying the land, the property owner needs to negotiate with the municipality before they can start building. A regulation plan is typically made, a detailed plan stating where the property owner can build, with lots of strings attached - there should be made shortcuts for pedestrians, there should be made sufficient parking places, and there should be some "free" areas for the commons. The property owner accepts the plan and starts building. After all the houses have been built and sold, the property owner then typically still owns small patches of "unusable" land that is regulated for the use of the commons. Those patches of land are essentially worthless, unless the regulation plan is changed. Of course the property owners often wants to exploit the last piece of land as well, but that's not entirely fair.
One of the worst case I've heard about was in Tromsø, lots of apartment buildings were built, and sold - when selling it, it was explicitly advertised that the land in front of the building was regulated to the commons, hence they would never risk to lose the view of the sea. As soon as all the buildings were sold, and even before the area was re-regulated, the development company started selling prospects for the next round of apartment blocks they were intending to build - on the land that was supposed to be for the commons. Obviously the development company had planned this for a long time, and had the right friends in the municipality, so they knew in advance that they would be permitted to build more buildings on the area regulated for the commons.
(giving myself a modest 1% upvote for increased visibility)
Interesting! I also just knew about this particular case through the article in Dagsavisen. When browsing on the address I see that the conflict has been going on for years (https://www.vartoslo.no/hvem-visste-det-var-en-park-i-gyldenloves-gate-15/, https://www.oslo.kommune.no/getfile.php/1337191/Innhold/Politikk%20og%20administrasjon/Bydeler/Bydel%20Frogner/Politikk%20i%20Bydel%20Frogner/Politiske%20saker%20i%20Bydel%20Frogner/2015/2015-04-07%20Gyldenløves%20gate%2015%2C%20gnr%20213%2C%20bnr143%20Detaljregulering%20Kunngjøring%20om%20offentlig%20ettersyn%20frist%2009.03.2015%20tom%2027.04.2015/Sak%2065%20Gyldenløves%20gate%2015%20-%20detaljregulering%20-%20kunngjøring%20om%20offentlig%20ettersyn%20frist%2009.03.%20tom%2027.04.2015.pdf). It is lots of parks in the areas, and this "park" is very hidden so that I doubt it is used a lot. It would be perfectly suited for apartments in my opinion.
With this background, I would agree that it looks like inappropriate theft of private land, with the actual expropriation being the "final blow".
We had local elections in late 2011 and late 2015, and even if it's the "green" party that announces the expropriation, it was actually the "blue" parties paving the road for it.
(in my opinion, we need public spaces, green areas, walkways, parks and forests accessible for the commons, but this is not the way to do it. I have no specific opinions on this particular area, I don't know this area much)
Communists doing what communists do :)
Restemeed!
soon it will be re purpose for a breeding building to speed up the white genocide... I could almost bet.
@janusface All my life Govt. has never done anything POSITIVE for me........ One day I hope that all Govts. just implode...............
Let's hope so! But, until then keep your gold, silver and cryptos safe from the State mob.
Exactly
They wont just implode.
We need to blow them up!
If you can only remain with your property while the government allows it, then it is not your property. We can't confuse license with liberty. It seems that the commies are not coming, but they arrived a while ago and began to govern before we realized it.
Btw, while summer arrives in the north, winter arrives in the south. It has rained 5 times so far this month, exceptional.
Yes. They probably think they own everything already, but of course, they have to raise the property tax slowly and not expropriate too fast as not to create any resistance. Communism mascaraded as an environmental party is also a smart move. You do not like us, perhaps you want rampant global warming and deforestation? I have only been to Albir and the Canaries in Spain, but it never rained except for one time in Tenerife when it rained sand from the Sahara. Crazy!
Seems like a pretty nice place to get holds on ;)
While the flowers are as well very pretty and awesome !
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There should be a rule, that, the owner of the property can do whatever he wants with the property, as long as the majority of the people in a certain radius agree with your plans. I like that rule, simple and easy to understand. And government can't own any property unless its okay with the taxpayers. But that's another idea that is more complicated.