Florida Court Allows Taking Of Private Land To Build A Major League Soccer Stadium Based On A Broad Application Of “Public Use” Doctrine
“Last Friday, the Orlando Sentinel and News 13 Orlando both reported that a Florida Circuit Court upheld the City of Orlando’s decision to take private property located on West Church Street to build a soccer…
Florida Property Owner, Coy Koontz, Jr., Honored by Owners’ Counsel of America for his Stalwart Stand for Property Rights
“In 1994, Coy Koontz, Sr. initiated what has become a nearly 20-year legal battle through the Florida courts. Central in the case is the common exercise of government permitting power. Koontz, Sr. died in 2000,…
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer Will Tear Down Local Church To Build Soccer Stadium
“The city of Orlando will be exercising its powers of eminent domain to demolish a 30-year-old church and build a soccer stadium in its place. “There are no other options, we’ve also worked with them,…
City plans to take church property for new soccer stadium
“A 30-year-old church is standing in the way of Orlando’s plans for a new soccer stadium and the city plans to use eminent domain to get the property. Members of the family-owned Faith Deliverance Temple…
Cocoa Beach’s Glass Bank building closer to demolition
“The city found an unexpected ally in its quest to remove the dilapidated Glass Bank from the beachside skyline. The majority owner of the building agreed last week to not fight efforts by the city…
Man’s law vs. nature’s law
“For a decade now the people of Dunnellon and developer Jerry Dodd have been at odds over his plans to develop a 265-acre residential and commercial development along more than a mile of the Rainbow…
Palm Beach County rejects eminent domain request
“Private property rights trumped a developer’s parking lot problem, Palm Beach County commissioners decided Tuesday. The County Commission rejected an unusual request from the village of Royal Palm Beach for the commission to condemn a…
Local church says they were duped by eminent domain claim
“You can hear the traffic flying by the Glorious Bethlehem Temple off Emerson, but Pastor Don says that never bothered anyone. “They love being here, they talk about it, and we just carry the word…
Royal Palm neighborhood concerned, Florida developer using eminent domain for new shopping area
“On one side of Pioneer Road sits the Westwoods neighborhood, a quiet complex of houses tucked in just east of State Road 441. On the other side of the street sits a 1000 foot buffer…
Manson Bolves Informs Property Owners Affected by the Sabal Trail Transmission Pipeline Project
“Manson Bolves, Attorneys at Law, launched GasLineLandTake.com, a website that informs property owners who may be affected by the new Sabal Trail Transmission interstate pipeline project of their rights. Sabal Trail Transmission, LLC will be…