Eminent Domain – The Only Avenue to Get What They Want
“I am hardly able to contain my extreme disgust and frustration. I am one of the chosen few going through the eminent domain “process” with the DOT. As of today, all I have been witness to are a lot of lies and misrepresentations of first; what the project was supposed to be and second; there was missing, legal information in the preliminary packet and untrue statements in our proposal for purchase.
The first meeting we went to for viewing of what was proposed for design and how it would affect our and neighboring properties revealed we would not be affected. A few months later, we received a flyer to come to the planning meeting to discuss the design change, which now was taking between 13 – 15 feet of our back lot! The reason – the utilities need to put a straight access road in, so they can service the power lines. Are you kidding me; they want to destroy my back yard to place a service road there. To what public purpose does this benefit?”
Meyers-Jansky, TJ. Greenfield Now 18 August 2013.