Legislators listen to Crossroads residents about eminent domain
“The Eagle Ford Shale play has been booming through the Crossroads and it has brought money and prosperity to the area, but all of that oil and natural gas has to be shipped to market…
Virginia amendment to limit eminent domain passes!
Voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment that some officials contend will make it nearly impossible for Virginia localities to seize private property for redevelopment. “When you give the voters a chance to affirm their constitutional…
Amendment to limit eminent domain in Virginia passes
Virginia voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment that some officials contend will make it nearly impossible for localities in the state to seize private property for redevelopment, The Virginian-Pilot reported. The statewide amendment had 76…
Opponents of Virginia’s Eminent Domain Initiative Made the Best Case for It
Like many other state legislatures horrified by the Supreme Court’s infamous Kelo ruling in 2005, Virginia’s General Assembly passed a measure restricting government’s taking of private property for economic-development purposes. The amendment was designed to…
Eminent Domain Abuse in Holyoke, Massachusetts
The consultant that prepared the blight study (and the urban renewal plan itself), finds that the area is “decadent” because of substandard public infrastructure, “irregular lot sizes,” the presence of vacant lots that lack “curb…
Virginia amendment limiting eminent domain could affect public projects
By a margin of almost 3 to 1, Virginians agreed to limit the ability of the state and local governments to take property by exercising its right of eminent domain. The amendment changes the state’s…
LDDA director hails tax-increment approval
About 2,500 voters in the special district downtown approved a tax-increment financing measure that allows the Longmont Downtown Development Authority to float bonds for infrastructure projects. The measure passed with 165 votes in favor and…
San Marcos residents want more parkland, but not higher taxes
More than 51 percent of votes counted so far were in oppositiong to the city using eminent domain to secure the site, and about 65 percent of some 4,900 voters oppose the city raising property…
Caldwell to consider eminent domain action
The eminent domain action would acquire ditches and associated facilities, water rights, wells, associated rights and drainage capacity to provide irrigation delivery and secure the drainage of the city, according to the meeting agenda. Butts,…
The Barclays Center’s Media Enabler – From the start, the New York Times was reluctant to challenge Brooklyn’s new arena.
“The sanitized story was no shock, given the Times’s erratic, inadequate coverage of the $4.9 billion Atlantic Yards development, the largest, most contentious real-estate project in Brooklyn’s history, encompassing 16 towers and covering 22 acres….