At the LA Weekly, Jill Stewart deconstructs the two competing California ballot initiatives to limit eminent domain. Prop 98 puts more restrictions on government's ability to take land for private development. Stewart argues that the two main things to know are these. Prop 98 would end rent control (a provision added to attract funding for the initiative) and Prop 99 would protect some homeowners but would leave cities free to take the land of mom-and-pop stores.