$86M Ocean County Beach Replenishment Program On Army Corps Of Engineers Agenda
“Mantoloking has retained an attorney to handle potential eminent domain cases, while other municipalities are still working with homeowners. “The dune line was only set two weeks ago, so we had to give people some…
Eminent Domain on Hold in T.R. Pending L.B.I Appeal
“…results of an appeal filed by Harvey Cedars officials in State Supreme Court regarding to a case that awarded beach front property owners $375-thousand dollars for a dune project that obstructed their ocean front view….
Opinion: State should lead easement fight
“Gov. Chris Christie drew a line in the sand this week at a Long Beach Island town hall meeting, railing against the greedy, mule-headed homeowners who refuse to sign easements allowing dunes to be constructed…
Debris Removal Firm a ‘Con Job’
“Even as the first round of federal relief money from Superstorm Sandy makes its way to the Garden State and Gov. Chris Christie restates his commitment to dune projects, s*&! is hitting the fan. This…
Devastated by Sandy, Mantoloking eyes eminent domain against holdouts
“Borough officials have a message for homeowners who are refusing to allow emergency dunes to be built on their property: They’ll take the property by force if they have to. “A selfish and short-sighted group…
Chemical reactions in downtown Colorado Springs
“In 2009, the city told Cottonwood (now known as Cottonwood Center for the Arts) to move to make way for a hotel project. At the time, the clean-up cost for the site was estimated at…
Eminent Domain and Mantoloking: A personal take on a borough issue
“When I worked in my first business, a booming fashion design and manufacturing firm based out of NYC and NJ, I would do poetry and short story readings and send my work out to be…
City of Fort Morgan starts runway eminent domain action
“The Fort Morgan City Council on Tuesday night heard that the city was moving forward with legal action to gain access to the property adjacent to Fort Morgan Municipal Airport needed for a new runway….
The Great Surge of 2012: Rotterdam-on-Hudson vs. Gaia’s Eminent Domain
The Dutch, he writes, when making decisions on which land to protect from the sea, “simply run the numbers, and if something is worth less in terms of pure euros and cents, it is more…
Time to leave the coastlines
We can recreate the sand dunes that existed in many places before they were filled in to build housing, plant foliage complementing the beach environment to help nature take over. Beyond that, we need to…