The Day, the New London, Connecticut newspaper reports that the Fort Trumbull site of the wretched Kelo case, that was razed to the ground after the Supreme Court allowed the taking of the pre-existing lower middle class neighborhood for redevelopment that never got off the ground, is being taken over by “wildflowers, milkweeds and tall grasses,” which in turn attract birds. Those are now moving in, to the delight of local bird watchers. See Judy Benson, Fort Trumbull Neighborhood Is for the Birds, July 7, 2009. http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=ebb2f895-492b-40a7-ab06-9de4d2e56acc
If this isn’t lunacy, we don’t know what is. Some $80 million in public funds wasted, a viable neighborhood destroyed, all for nothing — or, no pun intended, for the birds.
All we need now is for some endangered bird species to find its way into the area and take up residence there, which, of course, would make it unbuildable. Crazy? Well, yes. But a fitting denouement to what has been crazy throughout.