With new hire, NDOT serves notice it won’t give away the store on eminent domain settlements
“That’s right. And that’s why lawyers who have been trying to get as much money from the state and Clark County for years suddenly are staring at themselves in the mirror.
Currently, sources say, Fitzsimmons is working on an issue regarding the eminent domain issues related to the Boulder City bypass. In the long term, however, the expectation is that her rare knowledge passed on to state lawyers will help the Department of Transportation as it moves forward on Project Neon, a $1.5 billion expansion of 3.7 miles of the highway from about the Spaghetti Bowl south to Sahara Avenue.
That $1.5 billion is an early estimate. In October, the state Board of Examiners expressed astonishment when the board received the $10.6 million bill for 2.8 acres that originally was thought to cost $4.7 million.”
Schoenmann, Joe. Las Vegas Sun News 9 December 2012.