Can eminent domain be used for a toll road? Jefferson Parkway project faces latest roadblock
“A landowner who is refusing to sell a half-acre stretch of his property to the Jefferson Parkway Public Highway Authority says the group is planning to move forward regardless of his concerns and may use eminent domain to seize his land.
Mark Hotchkiss is a trustee The Kenneth W. and Joy R. Hotchkiss Family Trust and the son of the property’s original owners.
He sold part of his father’s property to the highway authority in 2015 after years of discussions but was approached again in December and asked to sell another half-acre to the group.
The group is settling on contractors and getting ready to break ground on a 10-mile toll road in 2020 that will run from Golden to Broomfield.
Hotchkiss believes the sale would make the rest of his father’s property worthless since the nearly two acres that would be left to his family would be situated between two highways and would not have access to an easement for trucks.”
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Lopez, Meghan. Channel 7 News 24 January 2019.