Port of Vancouver prepares to take eminent domain action
“The Port of Vancouver on Tuesday signaled it’s ready to use eminent domain to settle how much it should pay Pacific Coast Shredding — a port tenant — for acquiring a piece of the company’s property to build a key segment of its $275 million freight-rail expansion project.
The port’s Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a resolution allowing the port to launch a legal process to decide “just compensation” for acquiring roughly 1.1 acres of the nearly 14 acres Pacific Coast Shredding leases from the port.
Under the two parties’ current lease agreement — adopted in September 2011 and revised two years later — the port already has the right to access the parcel to build a $38 million grade-separated rail entrance to move cargo into and out of the port more efficiently.”
Corvin, Aaron. The Columbian 28 January 2014.