Bulldozing fire line “takings”?

If the taxpayers pay for the first time they bulldoze my home to create a fire line at the wild land interface so as to save the whole town, they should then be exempt from paying for any subsequent times they bulldoze my house in the future to save the town.

Make sense Hugo?

Neither does intentionally flooding my land and home repeatedly and only paying once for the act.

Unless of course, the powers that be condemn via eminent domain an easement for the future right to flood my land at will, and pay full compensation for that future right, or bulldoze a fire line across my property to save the town.

Hugo,
I always thought that if the Fed Gov’t was to step up and pay something like market value to provide aid to the uninsured following a flood, hurricane, etc, it should do so on the condition of taking title to the property, then amass those properties together and redesignate them as floodlands to buffer against future disasters of similar nature. The idea of paying out Federal Aid in FL, LA, MS, SC etc again and again because private insurers won’t issue policies to cover the sandbars, tidal flood plains, and sinking swamps people have chosen to build upon. Same thought for lava spills/volcanic eruptions.

(and I make that suggestion as a FL resident)

If the taxpayers pay for the first flooding, they should then be exempt from paying for any new building in that flood zone.

This is a bad idea if it means open lands will be fenced off with “No trespassing” signs. The lands would only pick up pennies an acre at public auction, far too little to justify destroying the quality of life in the open West. “Don’t fence me in!”

I am more sympathetic to private use, however, eg mining (provided the taxpayer gets reasonable royalties), and intelligently managed logging.

The Scandinavian countries have a superior legal framework for private land in wilderness of low economic value– the “freedom to roam”, aka “every man’s right” (“allemansrätten”).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam
Roads, trails, and undeveloped lands are open to hikers, hunters, and campers who respect them.