Eminent domain, used often to seize land from private owners, has Palizzi Farm in Brighton fearing for its survival
“I’m not young, I’m not stupid and it’s not going to happen.”
That’s what Debbie Palizzi told developer Jack Hoagland when he knocked on her door in 2022 and offered her $75,000 to run a stormwater pipeline from a subdivision he wanted to build through land her family has been farming for over 90 years.