In the second place, Rodgers says, Anable had very clearly spelled out that preparing such reports was well within his job description. Under federal law, Rodgers points out, it's illegal to discriminate against a person based on his place of origin. Hence, the value of state land sales is being diminished, rather than enhanced. In the end, he echoes the prediction of critics who say all Arizonans will have been cheated, potentially out of a billion dollars of future land values. All of these state lands are now being sold cheap to today's developers, when a few years from now they could be sold for hundreds of millions more.
Neighbors are concerned about the overflow.
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