DETROIT (Michigan News Source) – The city of Detroit it planning to spend about $3.8 million to buy private property and use eminent domain if it needs to so it can build “solar neighborhoods” to support the Paris Climate Agreement, the international agreement on climate change.

The city is voting on approving the purchase of more than 430 properties in the northern part of the city in the Houston Whittier and Greenfield Park neighborhoods and turn them into “solar neighborhoods.”

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The city assessed the properties and found 97% of them to be “vacant, decaying, obsolete, underutilized and/or blighted.”

The city will use its power of eminent domain to take the land from owners unwilling to sell, according to documents given to city council members for its Jan. 7 meeting.

“If the City is unable to purchase property within the Solar Neighborhoods from property owners through voluntary negotiations, the Corporation Counsel for the City is hereby directed to institute and bring to an appropriate conclusion, the necessary condemnation proceedings on behalf of the City in the Third Judicial Circuit for the County of Wayne to acquire such property and terminate any underlying interest therein, through the exercise of the City’s power of eminent domain,” the city memo stated.

The city estimated it will spend $1.8 million in relocating “displaced” residents.

The City Council passed an ordinance to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the city by 35% in 2024, 75% by 2043 and 100% by 2050.