CommStock Report
“U.S. transportation and energy infrastructure systems were often built with use of eminent domain. The power to appropriate private property for purposes considered to be a public use was frankly, necessary in order to build…
Boulder City bypass eminent domain case settled
“A state panel has settled an eminent domain dispute with a gaming giant over land the state needs for the first phase of the Boulder City Bypass. The Board of Examiners on Tuesday approved another…
Farmers Ask Officials to Stop Rail Yard
“Rows of cotton that have been picked by the same family for generations sit in the shadow of a railroad track in Mumford, a small farming community about 22 miles northeast of College Station in…
CCTA Uses Eminent Domain to Acquire Properties
“Twice in recent months, the Chittenden County Transportation Authority has been thwarted in its attempts to buy property in Burlington that it claims is crucial to its long-term growth. An electrical contracting business that abuts…
Caltrans to sell 53 properties near 710 Freeway
“Forty-two homes in the path of what was once planned as a 710 Freeway surface extension between Alhambra and Pasadena survived demolition when the project died. Those 42 homes and 11 vacant lots were chosen…
Use of eminent domain could save GovGuam from penalties
“A bill to get the last property needed to move forward with the Pigua bridge project in Merizo could prevent the government from facing fines. During a public hearing for the bill yesterday, the Department…
Editorial: Use of eminent domain must be justified
“n 2012, Winston-Salem used eminent domain to purchase from Harvey Davis the Union Station, a grand old structure built in 1926 that was slowly deteriorating, with the idea of eventually redeveloping it into a transportation…
Ombudsman to mediate VDOT eminent domain disputes
“Property takeover disputes are prompting change within the Virginia Department of Transportation. The most recent dispute involves a Portsmouth business being forced to make way for the Martin Luther King Expressway. The battle is over…
Bureaucracy Squashes Widow’s Hope To Recover Land Taken By Eminent Domain
“Two months ago an 89-year-old Andover widow, Carolyn Sheehan, said in this column that she hoped someone in government would let her buy back 11.3 acres that the state Department of Transportation took by eminent…
ON THE RIGHT LANE: Pain of eminent domain
“For some time now the Windham Planning Board has been discussing allowing a property owner on Sabbady Point Road to swap land with other landowners in order to improve his lot by moving the road,…