Amherst Town Meeting asked to preserve land to keep it from proposed student housing
“Members of the Save Historic Cushman group have submitted an article asking that the town take the conservation restriction by eminent domain or purchase it and pay up to $1.2 million for it. The money…
LETTER: Preservation Society pleased mayor listened
“The Preservation Society of Fall River is pleased and relieved with Mayor Will Flanagan’s decision to scale back the medical district re-zoning proposal, and we’d like to put it behind us, but The Herald News’…
Brewery proposes taking for parking, bike path
“Cisco Brewers has formally petitioned the County Commissioners to pursue an eminent-domain taking along the edges of Bartlett Farm Road to widen the roadway, create a new bicycle path, and head off a looming parking…
Brockton becoming battleground for eminent domain fight
“City Councilor Jass Stewart’s working group on a bold initiative to use eminent domain to stem the decline in city housing prices will listen today to a Wall Street trade group opposed to the idea….
Amherst Town Meeting may consider eminent domain articles
“Town Meeting could get to consider large expenditures to preserve affordable housing for low-income residents and protect a large wooded tract in North Amherst from being developed as high-end student housing. These eminent domain articles…
Real property – Eminent domain – BRA
“Where a Superior Court judge found that redevelopment of a section of land on Long Wharf in Boston required compliance with article 97, that ruling must be reversed based on the purposes behind the Boston…
For answers to housing woes, look to vibrant Davis Square
“THIRTY YEARS ago, Davis Square in Somerville and Forest Hills in Jamaica Plain looked a lot alike. Both were gritty corners of Greater Boston, far off most residents’ radar. And both were hoping a new…
Brockton officials cautiously eye eminent domain for underwater mortgages
“The Brockton City Council recently launched a series of hearings and meetings investigating a proposal to seize underwater mortgages – loans with balances that exceed the current value of the homes they’re tied to. CommonWealth’s…
Brockton eminent domain group has packed to-do list
“Using eminent domain to seize mortgage notes, which contractually bind residents to pay back homeowner loans, would be a novel but legal use of government authority, according to group members. “We all think of eminent…
Banksters’ Useful Idiots: Brockton Considers Dubious Eminent Domain Strategy, Tainting More Legitimate
“Regular readers may recall about a dozen municipalities, with San Bernardino getting the most press by being one of the earliest to consider it, were looking into using municipal powers of eminent domain to deal…