What is the effect of the expansion of the City of Regina on the value of a parcel of land in the path of urban development?

It seems also obvious that the decision of the City to take certain lands within its boundaries and replot or subdivide such lands is bound to have a great effect upon the value of those lands. The City ordinarily can choose to expand in any direction and its decision as to the place and direction of extension can have a great effect upon the value of the land being taken within its boundaries and replotted or subdivided. These facts demonstrate to us the correctness of our statement in the case of Regina ex rel Anderson v. Hawrelak 53 W.W.R. 257 at page 269, reading as follows: "Many people engage in the activity of acquiring ownership of land in the path of urban development with a view to selling the land profitably when the city extends to the location of the land. There cannot ordinarily be any valid criticism of this practice. But any person who engages in that type of activity must be made to realize that if, while conducting such activities, he becomes elected to the office of alderman or mayor of the city within which the land lies, or if he commences to engage in such activities after he has been elected to such an office, he places himself in a position in which his duty and his interest may conflict."