Road commission using eminent domain to purchase property for County Road AAA
“The Marquette County Road Commission approved a motion to purchase private property on the new County Road AAA project.
The Hingst and McGee properties are the two parcels of land the commission is purchasing. The Hingst property is located close the intersection of County Roads 510 and AAA, and the owners did not want to sell land, so the commission can use eminent domain to buy the property.
“There’s laws in the State of Michigan that deal with building public roads and obtaining right-of-way for that public road if the property owner does not want to let the road commission have that (property become) public, and that’s through the eminent domain process,” Marquette County Road Commission Engineer Manager Jim Iwanicki said.
“That’s why we brought legal counsel on, they had us do a resolution (at the meeting) to say this is what we (the commission) needed to do for the public good.””
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