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Kinder Morgan Project
Posted on November 20, 2009Summary of the Proposed Project Kinder Morgan proposes to construct and modify its existing Huntsman Storage Facility. Kinder Morgan says that the completion of the Huntsman Ridge Expansion Project would benefit the Rocky Mountain region by meeting the immediate and longterm needs of the region as well as providing flexibility in managing and storing gas supplies...
Florida Dept of Transportation Public Hearing
Posted on November 18, 2009TBO ZEPHYRHILLS - The Florida Department of Transportation's plans for widening U.S. 301 between Zephyrhills and Dade City involves very little widening. The department studied two options for widening the 71/2-mile road to six lanes, but project costs would have ranged from $85 million to $215 million...
Public Interest
Posted on November 16, 2009The Badger Herald Most people would agree that taking someone's property against his will is immoral. Forcing your neighbor to sell his house, for instance — regardless of the amount offered — would be morally repugnant. After all, the essence of a fair transaction — a trade — is the consent of both buyer and seller...
Judge ponders consolidating
Posted on November 14, 2009Gwinnett Daily Post A judge will consider consolidating two cases involving a controversial land deal to buy property for the McGinnis Ferry Road extension. Tony Powell, an attorney representing Old Peachtree Partners, asked Judge Debra Turner to consolidate the breach of contract case the county filed when the partners backed out of the contract with the county's condemnation case filed a year later...
Nashville is in for a fight
Posted on November 12, 2009Nashville Business Journal Appraisers working for the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency had the task of assigning values to several downtown properties that may soon give way to a new downtown convention center. Determining property value when comparable sales are few and far between can be a tough task, and one that, for up to seven parcels, may be in the hands of a jury...
Delaware Chrysler Site Purchased
Posted on November 10, 2009Delaware Online The University of Delaware signed an agreement Friday with Chrysler to purchase the 272-acre site of the company's shuttered Newark assembly plant for the bargain price of $24.25 million. The university was able to get the property for a little more than half of its estimated value of $43 million by agreeing to accept liability for any environmental cleanup that might be needed...
Columbia Gas Transmission 'flat out lying,' resident declares
Posted on November 09, 2009Cumberland Times To Flintstone resident Billy Joe Mathis, the tactics employed by Columbia Gas Transmission and its efforts to find additional storage capacity for natural gas progressed to demands, intimidation, threats and outright lies. An Oct. 29 letter to Mathis continues from previous correspondence that 'as you are aware, (the company) plans to conduct seismic testing, in part to determine the feasibility of increasing the storage of its Artemas (Pa...
Just compensation is not a windfall
Posted on November 09, 2009Kansas City Star A condemnation begun during downtown's redevelopment rush in 2005 has been settled, and while the market is decidely cooler, the owners of Gigi's Wigs & Beauty Supplies are $1 million richer. Chung Hoe Ku and Myong Suk Ku, the couple running Gigi's, will receive $990,000 from the city for the two buildings housing their business at 1219-21 Grand Blvd...
Green Bay has a serious problem
Posted on November 07, 2009Green Bay Press Gazette The state Supreme Court has declined to review a court ruling that Green Bay must pay at least $6.4 million in a case involving the city's efforts to redevelop the old Younkers building. Zima said the lost lawsuit could cost the city up to $12 million, although he didn't explain how he arrived at that calculation...
Sometimes acquisition agencies do it right
Posted on November 06, 2009Link to complete filing The linked Petition by Blue Sky for certification and conversion of a previously operating gas production facility to a natural gas storage facility, states that it does or is about to own all fee/(landowner) rights and mineral rights by voluntary acquisition...
FMV in a Down Market
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Millions to Nowhere
Posted on November 02, 2009The News Tribune Millions to nowhere Earlier this month the Port of Tacoma canceled plans to develop the Blair-Hylebos Peninsula and to build a terminal for NYK Line. It was a complex project that grew more so and eventually crashed as the recession hammered the shipping industry...
MoDot spending $2.3 million to get bridge right-of-way that city sold for $2
Posted on October 30, 2009Lake Expo Online ST. LOUIS -- At least two years after engineers selected the route of ramps for a new Mississippi River bridge, a city agency agreed in 2003 to sell publicly owned land in that path to a developer for $2. The blighted property north of downtown, once used by a trucking company, fell in the LRA's hands in a tax sale...
Expansion of the Cunningham Storage Field Located in Pratt and Kingman Counties, Kansas
Posted on October 29, 2009Many utilities have arrived at a conclusion that their storage fields effectively 'leak', or 'travel outside the original contemplated storage area.' We can find a number of recent filings such as the Pratt and Kingman County example above in which the gas storage companies are required to expand its area which serves as a 'buffer' in order to protect its gas interest...
Head I win, tails you lose
Posted on October 28, 2009Oakland Press Consumers Energy says it plans to implement an interim natural gas rate increase of $89 million next month. The utility says the change would increase a residential customer's bill by about $3.50 a month, but because of lower natural gas costs the average monthly bill will be slightly lower than last winter...
Texans' dislike of eminent domain
Posted on October 27, 2009Star Telegram On Nov. 3, Texans will have to decide just how much power government should have at its disposal to take private property for a "public good." Proposition 11 would, in theory, limit the power of the state to forcibly take a resident's property...
Preakness Safeguard
Posted on October 26, 2009Hometown Annapolis A new Maryland law allows the state to use eminent domain to seize the Preakness, in the event of a deal to take that race out of the state. Magna International, the current owner of Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course, contends that this is unconstitutional - and Magna might be right...
St. Louis: inviting bad deals
Posted on October 24, 2009St. Louis Dispatch O'Fallon-based McEagle Properties wants the rights to rebuild much of a 1,500-acre swath of north St. Louis. To get the project off the ground, it wants $391 million in tax-backed financing. Aldermen will be considering a 102-page agreement that is similar to one the city's Tax Increment Finance Commission recommended last month...
Same conclusion, slightly more deliberate
Posted on October 21, 2009Dallas News In 2005, the Legislature enacted additional limits on the practice. Now, Proposition 11 on the Nov. 3 ballot would go further by writing restrictions into the Texas Constitution, ensuring that property-owner protections could not be easily undone...
Houston Chronicle Editorial Favors Restriction on Takings for Private Use
Posted on October 20, 2009Houston Chronicle Respect for private property rights runs deep and wide across Texas. When a growing number of Texans came to believe those rights were threatened by a 2005 U.S. Supreme Court decision based on a Connecticut case, the response was decisive: Create a state constitutional amendment to block the threat...
The Public Use Balancing Act
Posted on October 19, 2009Star Bulletin Suzette Kelo should have won. Taking a perfectly good single-family house in order to "economically revitalize" a neighborhood is neither good policy nor good law. However, neither that case nor the Hawaii case that preceded it should have resulted in the recent Hawaii case overturning a government taking for a very public road...
Trying to Stop the Animal Already Loose
Posted on October 17, 2009WAAYTV.com (Northern Alabama) On Monday night, the Decatur City Council took it's first steps towards fighting against a potential fuel depot. They passed a unanimous resolution giving the mayor's office and Decatur Utilities their full support in fighting the depot...
Been there and done that
Posted on October 16, 2009Grand Rapids Press What litigation? The DeVries Company acquired 38 Front Street in 1997 for approximately $850,000. In 2001-02, DeVries filed suit against the Michigan Department of Transportation, claiming that the S-Curve reconstruction had moved the highway so close to the building that it was now unusable as a multi-purpose facility...
Is the Problem Due to Condemnation?
Posted on October 16, 2009KIDK REXBURG - A Rexburg homeowner feels like they are being taken advantage of by a company using Eminent domain to drill for gas on his property in Oklahoma. These are photos of an 80-acre property in Oklahoma. The Stephen's Group is drilling for natural gas on the Larsen's property against his desires...
Hutchison gets Texas Farm Bureau endorsement
Posted on October 15, 2009My Fox DFW Citing concerns about private property rights, the Texas Farm Bureau endorsed U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchisonfor governor Monday, abandoning Gov. Rick Perry. The farm bureau endorsed Perry in his previous two runs for governor, but has been at odds with the Republican incumbent over what the bureau says is his lack of action in curbing abuses of eminent domain and protecting private property rights...
MSU: East Lansing Fights for Eminent Domain
Posted on October 12, 2009So, when Mr. McGinty says that the judge "found (my legal arguments) to be without merit," he was, quite simply, lying. There is no way that Mr. McGinty could have innocently "misinterpreted" the judge's very clear and precise statement - whether the city had "standing to file the request for demolition...
The Spoof : South Side of Chicago Still Smoldering After Pre Mature Demolition of 'Olympic Site' funny satire story
Posted on October 09, 2009Chicago, Il/ Urban Renewal News - The South Side of Chicago is still a 57 block smoldering pile of rubble after pre mature demolition was carried out on the property taken by 'eminent domain' by Chicago Mayor Daley in anticipation of the 2016 Olympic games being awarded to "Bam" Town! Reporters trying to find out what happened have been met with silence as the Mayor and his entire staff have not been seen since roughly 10:30 a...
Validity of uncertain taking
Posted on October 08, 2009SD Journal The DM&E's new owner, the Canadian Pacific Railroad, has no immediate plans to build the line. The railroad has dropped lawsuits in Wyoming seeking condemnation authority there. Delaney indicated he is inclined to remand the appeal to the Transportation Commission...
Camden must move on "blight"
Posted on October 07, 2009Camden Post State lawmakers gave Camden a legal tool five years ago to do something about this problem. The Abandoned Properties Rehabilitation Act of 2004 gives municipalities in the state the ability to wipe out or transfer tax liens or to use targeted eminent domain to take over blighted, empty buildings...
Vital Infrastructure
Posted on October 05, 2009DBusiness Posted from DBusiness.com on October 05, 2009 When Warren Mayor Jim Fouts called Detroit's aging infrastructure a 'ticking time bomb that's ready to go off' earlier this year, he was referring to the state of Southeast Michigan's water and sewer system; revealed as vulnerable and outdated in the wake of a challenging winter that induced 107 pipe breaks in Warren in one month alone...
Schizophrenic problems with water: Does government really want to condemn?
Posted on October 03, 2009Cincinnati.com From Northern Kentucky to Cincinnati's northern suburbs, more than 230,000 homes and businesses get their water from Greater Cincinnati Water Works. But this fall, a change that could affect the future of the utility, worth nearly half a billion dollars, is up for a vote - but only by Cincinnati residents...
Big surprise: Interference with use of parcel near an airport
Posted on October 01, 2009Highline Times Cutts told lawmakers the city's station area plan could generate an additional $2.1 million a year in city revenue and create more than 2,700 jobs. The city plans include a 1,000-space public parking garage on the Cassan property. In his testimony, Cassan sought to counter claims that the Cassans are risk adverse and lack development experience...
Rare Suit by a Community Against Its Eminent Domain Counsel
Posted on September 30, 2009Green Bay Press Gazette The city of Green Bay has filed suit against a lawyer who advised it in 2003 during the city's condemnation proceedings with the old Younkers building. The city claims that Benjamin Southwick of Richland Center failed to correct an appraisal error that led to a $6...
Natural gas firm favored in ruling on south Sacramento storage
Posted on September 28, 2009Sacramento Bee Sacramento Natural Gas Storage has gained ground in its bid to store billions of cubic feet of natural gas beneath a south Sacramento neighborhood. An administrative law judge for the California Public Utilities Commission ruled Monday that complaints that the company had misled the public and the agency earlier this year were without merit and will not be investigated...
Opening nears Sullivan County Mine
Posted on September 26, 2009WTHITV Sullivan County resident Jim Taylor said the amount of money he received is not enough when the railroad claimed eminent domain, dividing his farmland into two parts. Plus, he is upset about the detour needed to get to the cemetery because of closing County Road 350 South...
The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming
Posted on September 25, 2009New York Post The Atlantic Yards opposition group Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn said this appears to be yet "one more deception from the untrustworthy developer," who for years, and as recently as earlier this month, said the team was not for sale...
McKee's Northside Redevelopment
Posted on September 24, 2009St. Louis Business Journal The St. Louis Tax Increment Financing Commission will meet at 6 p.m. in room 208 of City Hall, 1200 Market St., to hold a public hearing for McKee's NorthSide plan, dubbed 'NorthSide Regeneration' in public documents...
Back for a second defeat, Pennsylvania Township Keeps on
Posted on September 22, 2009San Gabriel Valley In asking the judge to nullify the land-use appeals, the township argued that the family lost ownership interest in the property when the county tried to use eminent domain in November 2005, according to court papers. Uhler disagreed in his ruling, saying possession of the property was never physically relinquished...
Fallston Residents Oppose Pipeline
Posted on September 21, 2009Baltimore Sun Several Harford County residents are protesting a proposed gas pipeline that would run beneath their land by refusing to allow environmental surveyors hired by a natural gas company onto their properties. "This pipeline might be coming, but I am not going to help them," said Lisa Schneider of Fallston...
Competition for O'Hare?
Posted on September 19, 2009DC Velocity State and county officials are banking on continuing growth in commerce and population—Will County is Illinois' fastest-growing county—as well as the multimodal nature of the project to carry the day. They also point to the success of Rockford, Ill...
Is Minnesota Next to Stop Takings for Economic Development?
Posted on September 17, 2009Three businesses affected, U-Haul Co. of Minnesota, Larson's Automotive Repair Services and Competition Engines Inc., objected to the condemnation because it wasn't supported by findings of public purpose or necessity and that the city's use of the 'quick-take' procedure was improper...
Airport issues with Solbergs
Posted on September 13, 2009Hunterdown County Democrat At last night's committee meeting, Don Baldwin asked, "When is enough, enough?" He said officials have "squandered literally millions of dollars" in legal fees in the battle with the Sol bergs. "When is the bleeding going to stop? When will the committee reduce its losses -- or more correctly our losses...
Philadelphia Airport Expansion Problems
Posted on September 12, 2009Delco Times Questions of jurisdiction are holding up a Tinicum lawsuit filed last May in the Delaware County Common Pleas Court seeking a declaratory judgment on an 84-year-old statute that could keep Philadelphia from extending its airport further into the township...
The Classic: Environment v. Development
Posted on September 11, 2009Billings Gazette The Montana Land Board is to decide on Sept. 21 whether to accept an appraisal of the state-owned Otter Creek coal tracts near Ashland. If the Land Board accepts the appraisal, it will set in motion the process for leasing Otter Creek coal...
Court Determines Governmental Decision Making Process Is Unacceptable in Pinon Canyon
Posted on September 10, 2009U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch in Denver issued a ruling Tuesday overturning a 2007 environmental analysis of stepping up training at its Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site. The ruling says the Army didn't adequately assess the environmental impacts of the increased intensity and duration of training...
Forgetting Just Compensation Will Be Owed
Posted on September 09, 2009Ohio Tribune WARREN - A visiting common pleas judge toured a proposed landfill site Friday following a court hearing in the continuing litigation that pits the city of Girard against the landfill proponents. Although Total Waste Logistics has plans for the 41 acres off U...
Restaurant owner: Mt. Prospect won't push me out
Posted on September 08, 2009Daily Herald Never without his U.S. Marines baseball cap, Tod Curtis is a walking, talking symbol of old downtown Mount Prospect. He believes Mount Prospect village officials have been conspiring to drive him out of business for years, and want him out now, in particular, to proceed with a downtown development without him...
Contamination in the condemnation process
Posted on September 07, 2009NJ.com Last week, a state Superior Court judge in Union County directed Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc. and Power Test Realty, two New York companies, to pay the state more than $866,932 for the cleanup, which included removing eight underground fuel-storage tanks that had oozed benzene, xylene, methyl tertiary ether and ethyl benzene into the soil for years, according to state Attorney General Anne Milgram...
Valuation in Flood Areas
Posted on September 06, 2009Standard Examiner "Davis County changed the parcel of land to 5.3 acres, and my taxes increased," Jenkins said. He said he became the land's owner in 1980 and it was zoned R-2, which meant he could have up to 10 units per acre if he developed the property...
Railroad drops condemnation suits
Posted on September 04, 2009Wyoming Business Review CHEYENNE — Nineteen landowners in Converse, Weston, Campbell and Niobrara counties can relax. Lawsuits filed by the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad Corp. (DM&E) to condemn parts of their property as rights of way for a new coal-hauling train line were dropped yesterday...
Noise Mitigation in Warwick
Posted on September 02, 2009Warwick Beacon RIAC's most recent proposal to expand the main runway to 8,700 feet, while not the city's preferred option, has been the most reasonable to date. However, contrary to their assertions, RIAC and the FAA have continued to minimize and marginalize Warwick's very real, reasonable and legitimate concerns...
A Monument Waste in Florida
Posted on September 01, 2009Broward News The Broward County School Board has driven the school district into near-bankruptcy by overbuilding by tens of thousands of seats that now sit empty. Part of the reason is that every board member has had a pet project that's added to the hundreds of millions of dollars misspent...
Wal-Mart on the Prowl
Posted on August 31, 2009Business Journal Wal-Mart is one of several big-box stores that Gary Rappaport, CEO of The Rappaport Cos., says have expressed interest in Skyland, the Southeast D.C. shopping center he has long planned to overhaul with William C. Smith & Co...
St. Louis Eminent Domain Plan
Posted on August 30, 2009Fort Mill Times A group called the North Side Community Benefits Alliance scheduled a meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Shining Light Pentecostal Church. They'll discuss protections against eminent domain, a government power to take private property for a public purpose...
Limitations on the freedom of speech
Posted on August 28, 2009Times Union In October 2008, Royall sued Main and her publisher Encounter Books), seeking monetary damages and a ban on further production and distribution of the book. He also sued the Galveston newspaper that reviewed the book and the reviewer...
Another Low Ball Offer
Posted on August 27, 2009NJ.com LOGAN TWP. Following unsuccessful negotiations to buy 872 acres of land along the Delaware River here, Gloucester County officials will try to take the property through eminent domain. The county offered American Atlantic Company $4 million for the waterfront property just north of the Commodore Barry Bridge, land currently used to dump dredging spoils scooped up from the bottom of the Delaware River during routine maintenance...
New York's problems in obtaining change
Posted on August 26, 2009New York Daily News In recent years, New York has earned the dubious distinction of being one of thenation's worst abusers of eminent domain. The Empire State Development Corp. (ESDC) and localities have approved condemnation of property for a huge range of wealthy private entities, including the New York Stock Exchange, Costco, Stop & Shop and Columbia University...
Property owners refuse to leave
Posted on August 24, 2009NJ.com Some business owners in Cedar Rapids' flood plain say they've received a worse deal than homeowners: They were offered only the value of their land. And if they stay, there's no guarantee the Army Corps won't remove electric, water and sewer lines from under the levee to prevent them from undermining the system...
Premising FMV on assessed value
Posted on August 23, 2009NJ.com The city offered Ellis and his girlfriend the pre-flood assessed value of their home and land - about $86,000 - but subtracted about $25,000 the couple received in initial disaster assistance from FEMA. "You can't get a house for $61,000 out here," Ellis said...
Protecting Property Rights
Posted on August 20, 2009Star Ledger READINGTON -- A state appeals court today reversed a previous decision allowing Readington to exercise eminent domain over hundred of acres surrounding a Hunterdon County airport they wanted to preserve as open space. The panel of three judges said the town's decision to condemn 625 acres surrounding Solberg Airport was suspect and substantially motivated by a desire to limit the facility's expansion...
Property Rights in North Carolina
Posted on August 19, 2009Gazette The eminent domain restriction effort did make it to the floor of the House as the days in Raleigh were drawing longer and the temperature outside was rising. But that bill was sent back to committee and never got a floor vote. A parliamentary effort by one of the bill's primary sponsors, Rep...
Save one dollar and spend two
Posted on August 17, 2009NJ.com Freeholder Anthony Romano of Hoboken brought up the possibility of moving county workers out of the annex long enough to complete the needed upgrades _ once the building is acquired. Other freeholders and County Clerk Abraham Antun agreed that space was available in the nearby county Administration Building on Newark Avenue...
Judge orders DOT to pay more
Posted on August 15, 2009News Times Those valuations varied wildly -- $2.4 million to $4.1 million from the state's experts and $25 million to $29.1 million from Rock Acquisition's appraisers. Rock Acquisition LP was represented by lawyers Jay Skelton of Fairfield and Bart Halloran of Farmington...
AEP - Transmission Routing
Posted on August 13, 2009MSNBC QUESTION: Can you give an update on whether there are any significant legal or litigation challenges to the line? RESONSE: Mike Morris, AEP's chairman, president and CEO, "At the end of the day, there will only be, please don't put this in my backyard...
Pipelines, potential for more lines
Posted on August 10, 2009The Columbian The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will hold public meetings this month on a proposed 119-mile natural gas pipeline that would run mostly parallel to an existing pipeline along the Washington side of the Columbia River Gorge. The applicant, Williams Northwest Pipeline, says the Blue Bridge Pipeline is needed to meet increased demand for natural gas in western Washington markets...
Cabarrus sues over pipeline project
Posted on August 07, 2009Independent Tribune But Hovanec explained why the city wants the pipeline. Monroe sells natural gas and is building the pipeline to connect to the Transcontinental Gas Pipeline in Mooresville. That pipeline runs from Texas to New York. The pipeline will reduce the cost of natural gas for its customers by $18 per year once it is complete...
Virginia's Kelo invitation
Posted on August 05, 2009Pilot Online A circuit judge has cleared the way for the city's Redevelopment and Housing Authority to buy a handful of properties along Hampton Boulevard, agreeing with the agency that the area between 38th and 41st streets is still blighted. Property owners there tried to block the authority from using eminent domain to take their land, saying redevelopment in recent years has improved the neighborhood so much that it no longer meets the state's definition of a troubled area...
O'Hare Modernization Act
Posted on August 04, 2009Chicago Tribune At issue is whether the state even has the power of eminent domain for the Peotone airport. Shea said the state was given that authority in 2003 when the O'Hare Modernization Act was signed into law. It included provisions to begin purchasing land in an area suitable for airport construction over the next 10 to 20 years...
Railroad's right to land points to charter
Posted on July 30, 2009TimesNews of North Carolina The bill — which passed the House in May and sits before the Senate Judiciary Committee — would prepare the way for a light rail corridor, should the state choose to begin high-speed rail service. Light rail trains can't run on the currently laid track...
Alleged Tax Benefit
Posted on July 27, 2009Belleville News JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A group seeking to limit eminent domain is concerned that a legal appeal could make it harder to get the issue on Missouri's 2010 ballot. Missouri Citizens for Property Rights is backing a pair of constitutional amendments that would restrict the condemnation of private property for redevelopment...
Businesses Fight Blight
Posted on July 20, 2009Chronicle Online LORAIN — City officials may be checking into whether properties labeled blighted in a study done by a Cleveland consulting firm deserve the designation. The blight study is part of the process the city is undergoing to create an urban renewal plan for the area along Broadway from East Erie Avenue along the Black River to about 12th Street...
Damned if you do, damned if you don't!
Posted on July 17, 2009Washington Chronicle The Airport Board suggested the condemnation after 12 years of unsuccessful negotiations, during which it claims to have made offers well above market value for the property. With the approval of both jurisdictions, the pieces are in place for the airport board to take the land under eminent domain...
Agreement without Condemnation
Posted on July 16, 2009AP The Illinois Commerce Commission on Wednesday approved Calgary-based Enbridge Inc.'s application for the pipeline expected to run from the company's Pontiac terminal south to a pipeline hub near Patoka in Marion County. At least for now, the commission turned down Enbridge's request for eminent domain authority, ruling the company should continue negotiating with landowners for easements for the pipeline...
This is agreement or condemnation!
Posted on July 16, 2009AP The Illinois Commerce Commission on Wednesday approved Calgary-based Enbridge Inc.'s application for the pipeline expected to run from the company's Pontiac terminal south to a pipeline hub near Patoka in Marion County. At least for now, the commission turned down Enbridge's request for eminent domain authority, ruling the company should continue negotiating with landowners for easements for the pipeline...
Gadsden Will PAY for a Landfill
Posted on July 15, 2009Gadsden Times Revenue from operating the transfer station then could be used to close the landfill properly. But Simms and Turnbach said it is the commission's legal position that the county is not responsible for closing the landfill. Simms said Noble has told the commission he is interested in reopening the landfill...
Convention Center Glut
Posted on July 13, 2009CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) The Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, Appalachian Power Park, a new main library and an improved riverfront have dominated headlines over the past decade as improvements or proposed ideas to enhance the atmosphere of Charleston...
Intermodal Facilities
Posted on July 08, 2009BLE.org Martinez noted that about 400 acres are available near the preferred site for development of a business park, which could accommodate companies that would want to locate to New Market to take advantage of the railroad facility. It would be Jefferson County's link to a system of rail lines and other interposal operations that Norfolk Southern is planning called the Crescent Corridor, Martinez said...
Flood Protection
Posted on July 06, 2009InForum Former North Dakota Gov. Ed Schafer and several Fargo-area businessmen and politicians today kicked off a lobbying effort for a Red River diversion running through North Dakota to protect Fargo-Moorhead and surrounding communities from flooding...
Economic Development
Posted on July 04, 2009North Carolina News Network State lawmakers could ask voters to decide whether the government should be allowed to take a person's land for economic development purposes. The power of eminent domain allows governments to seize private property for public use, provided the owner receives fair compensation...
Texas Saga
Posted on July 02, 2009KFDA Amarillo, Texas- As expected, Texas Governor Rick Perry has called for a special legislative session. He announced Thursday that lawmakers will be called to Austin July 1st. The filibuster at the end of the last session to prevent a voter ID vote prevented two essential bills from getting passed...
Blight
Posted on June 28, 2009Roanoke Virginia Times "We're going to prove that Carilion and the city got together in advance and decided to make that land available for Carilion. And then, to satisfy the agreement, adopted the redevelopment plan," said Joseph Waldo, B&B's lawyer...
Undergroud Energy Storage
Posted on June 24, 2009Des Moines Register Compressed air would be stored in a network of 13 wells 3,000 feet deep and then released at strategic times to turn the turbines on two 134-megawatt electricity generators. The stored energy project is promoted as not only a source of non-fossil-fuel energy but also a way to store some of the surplus electricity generated during nonpeak hours...
A Simple Apology
Posted on June 22, 2009LoHud.com PORT CHESTER - The village apologized to a property owner today for improperly seizing his land a decade ago and officially signed an agreement that will pay him $475,002 and name a street after him. triggerAd(1,PaginationPage,14); "The village acknowledges the importance of this litigation and regrets the hardship it has caused Mr...
Assessed Value Compared to FMV
Posted on June 19, 2009Business Week Assessed at $148,400; bought for $280,000. Assessed at $172,200; bought for $345,000. Assessed at $440,000; bought for $2.8 million. Yi's property assessed in 2007 at $88,200. The city is offering $100,000. What's wrong with this picture? City officials: Stop paying your attorney to duke this out in court and offer the man $200,000 plus the legal expenses he incurred so far to fend you off...
Airport Wants School Property
Posted on June 15, 2009Gary Post Tribune But the School Board -- facing a fiscal deficit -- wants $3.75 million for the land. That's terribly unrealistic, even if the schools would choose to preserve the land and include it in its curriculum. The School Board now is taking the insanity to a new level by spending $30,000 on an appraisal...
Quick Take Proceedings
Posted on June 11, 2009Daily Press In explaining the contract, city officials said the Hornsbys were already in the midst of expanding their business on land next door, so the city's offer not only had to consider the cost of the existing business and the planned expansion but also the number of jobs the new facility would create and its future growth potential...
Colo. governor blocks Army expansion on ranchland
Posted on June 10, 2009Military.com DENVER (AP) — The Army's plan to expand a southeast Colorado training site is facing another obstacle now that Gov. Bill Ritter has signed a measure barring the use of state land for the project that is opposed by ranchers...
Underestimating Ohio Property
Posted on June 08, 2009Newark Advocate John Boesch's house stands vacant along Ohio 161, with the only sign of life being the big yellow one declaring his feelings for the state transportation agency. Many of his neighbors lost their houses entirely to the new four-lane highway project, which is scheduled for completion in May 2010...
California Full Circle
Posted on June 04, 2009Desert Dispatch California's budget problems are structural and require fundamental long-term changes. One such change, which could eventually make a $5 billion dent in the state's estimated $24 billion deficit, is a revamping of the state's redevelopment law, a 1950s-era relic that siphons away 10 percent of the state's property tax revenue and diverts it to developers who are subsidized to 'redevelop' shopping centers and vacant land...
Ohio Water Rate Hikes
Posted on June 03, 2009Columbus Dispatch Assuming all the paperwork is in order, Ohio regulators will approve Ohio American Water's latest rate request -- an average 23 percent increase across 16 service areas in nine counties. That's the way state law works. When the regulated utility can prove and justify the expense, a rate increase follows...
Palmyra Obstacle
Posted on June 02, 2009The Philadelphia Inquirer The 104 acres, called a mess by the borough, are central to plans for redevelopment. Now the company is suing. Consultants examining 189 acres targeted for redevelopment in Palmyra found the largest property owner's site in disarray...
345-kilovolt transmission line to carry electricity from wind farms
Posted on May 31, 2009Enid News OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Two judges in northwestern Oklahoma have ruled for Oklahoma Gas and Electric in its attempts to gain private property through condemnation so it can build a high-voltage oltage transmission line. OG&E wants to build a 112-mile-long, 345-kilovolt transmission line to carry electricity from wind farms near Woodward to Oklahoma City...
Syracuse Macy's Condemnation
Posted on May 29, 2009Syracuse.com A judge has struck down an attempt by the Macy's Department Store at the Carousel Center to collect more than $50 million from the mall's owner in a dispute over the building's expansion. Macy's filed a lawsuit in April 2008 accusing Carousel Center Co...
Warwick Runway Expansion
Posted on May 27, 2009NECN Some residents of Warwick, Rhode Island have begun the fight against a runway expansion plan at the state's largest airport, T.F. Green. Federal officials have endorsed a plan to extend the main runway at T.F. Green Airport by 1,500 feet. A runway extension would accommodate jets with larger fuel loads -- such as those making nonstop flights to the West Coast and Europe...
Northwest Connector
Posted on May 21, 2009Marion Star All of the Northwest Industrial Connector except an overpass will be done by approximately fall of 2010, Marion County Engineer Brad Irons estimated. The $17 million project, which once completed will link Ohio 95 West to Marion-Williamsport Road with a 2...
Tinicum
Posted on May 20, 2009Delco Times U.S. Rep. Joseph Sestak, D-7, Of Edgmont, said Sunday the real linchpin to halting the Federal Aviation Administration's NY/NJ/PHL Metropolitan Airspace Redesign lies in Tinicum. Philadelphia, as owner of Philadelphia International Airport, hopes to acquire some 72 homes and 10 businesses in the township as part of a proposed capacity enhancement plan...
Ladfill Valuation
Posted on May 15, 2009Choice ER With Glenn County's landfill nearing capacity, the Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved an environmental report and authorized the process toward expanding the facility. Glenn County Planning and Public Works has been looking for alternatives to expanding the landfill since 2005 because the facility is nearing capacity...
Landfill Valuation
Posted on May 15, 2009Choice ER With Glenn County's landfill nearing capacity, the Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved an environmental report and authorized the process toward expanding the facility. Glenn County Planning and Public Works has been looking for alternatives to expanding the landfill since 2005 because the facility is nearing capacity...
Bankruptcy and Condemnation
Posted on May 13, 2009News Leader CU wants to buy Spence's property -- and two other tracts owned by others -- to build a new bus transfer station at the corner of St. Louis Street and Benton Avenue. CU has tried to negotiate a sale with Spence, but the tract, the former site of the Arbor Hotel, is included in an ongoing bankruptcy case Spence filed with the court...
Barnett Shale Measures
Posted on May 11, 2009Dallas News The first two bills aimed at natural gas operations in North Texas' Barnett Shale passed in the Senate on Tuesday. The bills, now headed to the House, are among a spate of legislation introduced this session to regulate various aspects of the industry, which channeled about $11 billion into the local economy last year, according to a recent report...
Condemnation of Land Leases
Posted on May 08, 2009StlToday.com Spirit of St. Louis Airport soon will start buying 345 acres that it uses but does not own. The airport has received a $1.458 million federal grant for the first year of a three-year project to buy out the land owners. John Bales, the county's director of aviation, said the airport hoped to buy 100 acres this year, but the precise acreage won't be known until appraisals and negotiations are completed...
Power Line Expansion
Posted on May 07, 2009Harvard Law Record President Barack Obama '91's plans for energy and climate-change policy could alter the balance of power between the federal and state governments, according to Adam White '04, an Associate at Baker Botts LLP who specialized in energy litigation...
Blight
Posted on May 03, 2009WSJ.com U.S. Supreme Court rulings on property law don't often serve as clarion calls to wide swaths of the population. But most rulings aren't Kelo v. City of New London. States long have had the power to condemn private property for such purposes as building highways or bridges...
Texas Modification
Posted on May 01, 2009Sealy News Texas representatives have added additional protection to landowners against eminent domain abuse by repealing the 'jury of view' process from the transportation code. The legislation, authored by Rep. Lois Kolkhorst, R-Brenham, repeals the powerful, but rarely used process known as 'jury of view', which local governments can invoke to remove important constitutional protections usually afforded to landowners...
First Amendment Encumbered
Posted on April 30, 2009Leaf Chronicle The libel suit filed against members of the Clarksville Property Rights Coalition has been dismissed. In a ruling late last week, Sumner County Judge C.L. Rogers dismissed the libel suit filed by Richard Swift, a former City Council member, and Wayne Wilkinson, a member of the Downtown District Partnership...
Fallout from Energy Act
Posted on April 26, 2009Right Side News As discussed in Fallout from the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Pt 1, the United States federal government is taking a more and more integral role in the distribution and transmission of electricity and in the energy sector throughout the U...
Twin Cities High Voltage Lines
Posted on April 20, 2009Twincities.com Minnesota regulators today approved plans to build three long-distance, high-voltage transmission lines, with the condition that one of the lines carry wind energy. The state Public Utilities Commission granted a certificate of need for the $1...
Court says no to church condemnation
Posted on April 17, 2009Star Tribune In a case that sparked intense turmoil and contributed to the ouster of a long-time mayor, the Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled that the city of Jordan may not carve into the grounds of a historic Catholic church in order to widen roads for future growth...
Congratulations
Posted on April 10, 2009The second Suffolk native appointed to a Hampton Roads judgeship in February said his ambition since law school has been to sit on the bench. 'It's something I decided I wanted to do while I was in law school,' said Philip Infantino III, who attended Washington & Lee University School of Law, graduating in 1991...
Preakness facing Eminent Domain
Posted on April 09, 2009Southern Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley proposed legislation Wednesday aimed at increasing the state's power to keep the Preakness Stakes in Maryland, despite potential legal challenges stemming from the race owner's recent bankruptcy filing. The bill, which has the support of legislative leaders, gives Maryland the authority to acquire the Preakness and the two major horse racing tracks in the state through purchase or eminent domain as a last resort...
Difficulty of obtaining tenants
Posted on April 08, 2009Daily Herald The former owners of an Arlington Heights strip mall sued the village in federal court Friday, seeking more than $5 million for losses allegedly due to the village scaring tenants away. Ron Popp and Victor Valenti bought the Arlin-Golf mall, a short strip of stores off Arlington Heights Road just north of Golf Road in June 2001, said their attorney Joseph M...
The Costs of Eminent Domain
Posted on April 06, 2009Farmington Independent For months, area electric utility companies Great River Energy, Xcel Energy, along with nine others from the Dakotas to Wisconsin, have held public meetings to explain a proposed power line expansion project called CapX2020. But a group here in Dakota County is not buying into it...
Michigan to Get Wind Power
Posted on April 03, 2009Click on Detroit The skyline in Michigan's rural Thumb could look a bit like historic Holland a few years down the road under DTE Energy Co.'s announced plan to install 125 wind turbines in Huron County by 2015 -- and 280 within two decades. DTE Energy officials told Huron County commissioners the company must add 1,200 megawatts of green power to meet the state's new energy mandate...
Eminent Domain for Transmission Lines
Posted on April 01, 2009Las Vegas Sun Even snippets of comments by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid can make big news. Entire stories are written from sentence fragments grunted in a hallway. But Friday morning, Reid had time to expand on his thoughts for nearly an hour at a breakfast with more than 30 journalists...
Blue Water Bridge
Posted on March 30, 2009The Times Herald The brother and sister inherited the Port Huron home when their father died several years ago. Now, they could be forced to move based on the newest plan for the Blue Water Bridge Plaza expansion. "We don't want to move," said Marvin Beadle, 42, looking at a map of the plan, part of the project's final environmental impact statement released Tuesday...
Maryland Breaks New Ground
Posted on March 27, 2009Hometown Annapolis A plan proposed this week by Mayor Ellen O. Moyer to use eminent domain to break the lease for the near-vacant Market House caught some by surprise. City officials took the first step in that process by sending a notice yesterday to Site Realty Group, the Silver Spring company that holds a 20-year lease on the historic City Dock building, that it defaulted on its lease by failing to pay rent and by failing to keep the facility filled with vendors...
City of Rogers Files Eminent Domain
Posted on March 23, 2009NWAnews.com With negotiations stalling, the city of Rogers is going through with its threat to use eminent domain at the Rogers Municipal Airport. The city was negotiating with four leaseholders who controlled three hangars at the airport. Dealings with two of the four have proven unsuccessful...
Problem Communities Face
Posted on March 17, 2009South Bergenite Cherokee Porete no longer plans to move Arlington Valley forward. The redevelopment project aimed to transform a string of light industrial businesses along Porete Avenue in North Arlington into 1,625 homes, retail space and parks. The developer officially abandoned its plans during a superior court hearing on March 3...
East Village
Posted on March 15, 2009State News East Village-area property owners upset about a recent Lansing State Journal letter to the editor by an East Lansing official had their say Tuesday at the East Lansing City Council meeting. In the letter, East Lansing City Manager Ted Staton responded to allegations that the city intends to use blight designations and eminent domain to seize land from property owners...
Deals and Promises
Posted on March 13, 2009MLive The Ottawa County Road Commission said it needs the property where a popular dry cleaner has been in business for nearly two decades for a project to widen a portion of River Avenue to seven lanes just north of the bridge separating the township from Holland...
Still a demand
Posted on March 11, 2009Cincinnati.com A jury has awarded the owners of 1.3 acres at the fast-growing Interstate 75-Ohio 63 intersection $900,000 for their property in an eminent domain case growing out of the Ohio 63 widening project. The Warren County Common Pleas Court jury award last week was about 50 percent more than the state's appraisers valued the vacant store site across Ohio 63 from the Waffle House restaurant...
New Power Lines
Posted on March 08, 2009CQ Politics Moving electricity generated by solar or wind power from sun-drenched deserts and windswept plains to energy-thirsty cities and towns will require thousands of miles of new power lines, many of which could cut across private property. That, advocates say, will require strong direction from the federal government — including seizing land through the government's 'eminent domain' power...
How do you value a corridor?
Posted on March 06, 2009Trading Markets While city officials work to raise $40 million to buy the old Norfolk Southern rail line, a city appraisal says the land is worth much less. The city won't release the appraisal, citing "ongoing negotiations," but officials familiar with it said it values the corridor, the likely route for a light-rail project, at about $6 million...
Limits Placed on Eminent Domain
Posted on February 26, 2009WLBT 3 If it's passed, a bill currently in the state senate could strengthen property rights for Mississippians. But could it also stunt economic growth for the state? During the 2008 legislative session, Jackson State University hoped a bill giving them "quick take" ability would pass so they could take advantage of tax credits for land development near campus...
Electric Grid
Posted on February 11, 2009The New York Times Environmentalists dream of a bigger and “smarter” electric grid that could move vast amounts of clean electricity from windswept plains and sunny deserts to distant cities.Skip to next paragraph Such a grid, they argue, could help utilities match demand with supply on the hottest afternoons, allow customers to decide when to run their appliances and decrease the risk of blackouts, like the one that paralyzed much of the East in 2003...
Eminent Domain and Agriculture
Posted on February 05, 2009Daily Gazette CAPITAL REGION — Figures released Wednesday show that six counties in the Capital Region shed more than 58,000 acres of farmland and lost 104 farms between 2002 and 2007. Results in the USDA’s 2007 Census of Agriculture show Schoharie County experienced the biggest loss in farms while Montgomery County lost the greatest amount of acreage in the five-year period...
Northeast Pennsylvania Transmission Line
Posted on February 02, 2009Scranton Times PPL Electric Utilities is seeking state regulator approval to use eminent domain to acquire more than a dozen sections of right of way still needed for a proposed $510 million transmission line through Northeast Pennsylvania. In eminent domain applications filed this week with the Public Utility Commission in Harrisburg, PPL said it has been unable to reach right-of-way and easement agreements with 14 property owners — seven in Lackawanna County, six in Wayne and one in Monroe — although negotiations continue...
National Electric Act
Posted on January 30, 2009CS Monitor To justify taking homes and farms to build the Interstate highway, President Eisenhower cited a security need: Military vehicles must move fast in case of war. Now President Obama, citing a need to curb global warming, wants new transmission lines across America to carry electricity from carbon-free energy sources...
Batavia Simpson Line
Posted on January 27, 2009Battle Creek Enquirer LEONIDAS TOWNSHIP — Progress must march on, but few want it to march through their backyard. That's the sentiment of residents living in the path of a planned 25- to 30-mile electric power transmission line. The line, to be built by the Novi-based ITC Holding Co...
Columbia University Challenge
Posted on January 27, 2009Observer The owner of a set of storage buildings in West Harlem, Nick Sprayregen, has filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s use of eminent domain, he said this afternoon. The state has commenced actions to acquire the properties in connection with Columbia University’s planned 17-acre expansion in the area...
Agencies Fight against Delaware
Posted on January 26, 2009WMDT 47 An eminent domain bill will head back to Delaware's Senate for a second time. Senator Rob Venables is sponsoring the bill. It would make it harder for the government to acquire residential and business properties and then turn them over to private developers...
A Risky Approach
Posted on January 19, 2009iStockAnalyst Getting rid of Unitil following the December power outages will be easier said than done, State Rep. Stephen DiNatale, D-Fitchburg, said this week. DiNatale said all of the options under consideration will cost cities and towns a lot of money...
"Free"port
Posted on January 14, 2009The Facts The Economic Development Corp. and City Council will have a joint meeting to discuss all the issues and delays that surround the Freeport marina project. At a meeting Thursday, corporation members approved a request by Mayor Larry McDonald to come together at 6 p...
Electric Takeover
Posted on January 13, 2009Naples News MARCO ISLAND — A visit by Florida Municipal Electric Association’s executive director, Barry Moline, has some members of the city’s electric municipalization committee going back to asking why the city should buy the utility, Lee County Electric Cooperative...
The fight continues
Posted on January 12, 2009WDEL 1150 AM A Wilmington auto repair shop owner says he'll try again to get the General Assembly to pass a bill limiting the government's power to seize properties under eminent domain. Ed Osborne told WDEL's Delaware Afternoon News the legislation is actually a combination of 2 bills...
Court Rules Against Pipeline
Posted on January 08, 2009East Valley Tribune The owner of a single piece of property is standing in the way of a new natural gas pipeline to serve central Arizona. And a federal appeals court won't force the issue - at least not yet. Without dissent, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected efforts by Transwestern Pipeline to get immediate possession of properties in the path it seeks for its 260-mile pipe...
Canadian Bridge Plaza
Posted on January 06, 2009Times Herald Canadian officials are prepared to start a $54 million (Canadian) project to revamp the Blue Water Bridge Plaza in Point Edward. The project includes a 120,000-square-foot, four-story building to house Canada Border Services Agency, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, commercial brokers and Blue Water Bridge Canada administrative offices...
Landowners fight over gas storage
Posted on January 05, 2009Fulton County News Some southcentral Pennsylvania landowners fighting an eminent domain lawsuit to take their lowground mineral rights for an underground natural gas storage field say they feel they never had a chance to have a say on what happens to their land...
Court Considers Mineral Rights
Posted on January 02, 2009GJ Sentinel The Colorado Court of Appeals is considering a lawsuit questioning whether the state owns mineral rights beneath land it condemned for construction of Interstate 70 east of Rifle. Gypsum Ranch Co. LLC appealed the case after Ninth Judicial District Judge James Boyd issued a summary judgment in January in favor of the Colorado Department of Transportation...
NYRI Powerline
Posted on January 02, 2009Wayne Independent The Upper Delaware Council, Inc. (UDC) delivered testimony at a November 5 public hearing convened by the New York State Department of Public Service in Hancock to gather input on the application by New York Regional Interconnect, Inc...
Authority to Condemn
Posted on December 29, 2008Law.com Cliffside Park, N.J., filed a condemnation complaint in November to gain ownership of a private property in Fairview, N.J., it is renting for a Department of Public Works facility. The complaint offering $1.3 million for the property says Cliffside Park needs the land and garage as an interim facility until Cliffside Park and Fairview build a planned joint DPW facility in another part of Fairview with a county grant -- a project in the works since 2003...
Landfill Acquired
Posted on December 23, 2008Orlando Press Despite years of public disdain for the government’s ability to acquire private property through the power of eminent domain, county lawmakers pushed forward to own the land encompassing the county landfill near Artois. With little fanfare, Glenn County Supervisors reauthorized the county’s use of eminent domain law Tuesday to obtain the land it leases and the additional property at the north end of the landfill...
Landfill Value
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Future Expansion in Jacksonville
Posted on December 18, 2008pa href="http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/stories/2008/12/15/story4.html"Biz Journal/a/p pemspanspanJACKSONVILLE/span/spanspanspan mdash; The Jacksonville Port Authority is looking at alternative ways to acquire waterfront property for future expansion...
Property Split in Half
Posted on December 15, 2008Loudoun Times Sam and Uta Brown soon may be in a position to answer the question, "Can a working farm survive inside town boundaries, with a major road running through it?" The Browns insist the answer is "No." Purcellville Town Manager Rob Lohr said the town has always worked and will continue to work with the Browns to preserve the farm...
Texas Developer Files Lawsuits to Bulldoze Freedom of the Press
Posted on December 15, 2008www.ij.com Targets Include Book Author, Publisher, Law Professor Richard Epstein and Newspapers that Published Book Review Dallas, Texas-In perhaps the most striking example of a disturbing national trend, Dallas developer H. Walker Royall has launched a lawsuit spree to silence any media or public affairs commentator who dares expose his attempted abuse of eminent domain...
Condemnation Driving Urban Renewal
Posted on December 13, 2008Maryland Daily Record For many people, the words “condemned building” bring to mind a creaky, dilapidated house with boarded-up windows and caution signs posted: somewhere you don’t dare go without a hard hat. But in Baltimore, the use of condemnation powers — otherwise known as eminent domain — has become synonymous with urban renewal...
AEP in Virginia
Posted on December 08, 2008Forbes Sandy and Gene Byrd Harman own a 400-acre Black Angus cattle farm in Bland County, Va. that has been in Gene's family for five generations. Its view of rolling pasture backed by the virgin forests of the Blue Ridge Mountains has remained largely undisturbed for 150 years...
Poletown and Eminent Domain
Posted on December 04, 2008The State Bar of Michigan will commemorate the 1981 Poletown decision (Poletown Neighborhood Council v. Detroit) on Tuesday, Dec. 2, as part of its Michigan Legal Milestones program highlighting significant legal cases in state history. A bronze marker will be unveiled at the ceremony that will take place at Polish National Alliance Council 122, located at 10211 Conant Street in Hamtramck...
Marina Liability
Posted on December 04, 2008The Facts Economic Development Corp. board members soon will address the docks and sprinkler system required for the Freeport Marina’s completion, but the president of the board says they could run out of money before both items are completed. Dan Tarver, the new board president, said after the corporation’s meeting last week that the board and the developer, Briarwood Holdings, have yet to agree on who will foot the bill for all items past the $6...
Nevada's Battle against Kelo
Posted on December 03, 2008Review Journal In response to the U.S. Supreme Court's 2005 Kelo ruling -- in which the liberal justices formed a 5-4 majority to OK government land seizures on behalf of private parties -- local attorney Kermit Waters put together a ballot initiative designed to limit such outrageous abuses of eminent domain in Nevada...
Airport Expansion in Philadelphia
Posted on December 01, 2008Delco Times In his comments to the Federal Aviation Administration this week, U.S. Rep. Joseph Sestak, D-7, of Edgmont, called a proposed Capacity Enhancement Plan at Philadelphia International Airport “a poorly planned transportation project and a waste of taxpayer funds...
Is it really the highest and best use?
Posted on November 27, 2008Three Village Times It looks as though the Courtesy Hotel may finally be coming down. The hotel property will likely be sold to real estate developer Trammell Crow Residential, which will build a 150-unit rental apartment complex on the site. The Town of Hempstead had been holding up the sale because the town supervisor and town board felt that the project was too dense for the area...
Seizure of Business
Posted on November 24, 2008Vindy The city seeks to demolish the machine shop for a street extension for a YSU project. YOUNGSTOWN — The city law director wants a magistrate to hand over a small machine shop to the city under eminent domain, and then let a jury decide what compensation the shop owner should receive for his property...
Bulldozed- A must read
Posted on November 20, 2008The Facts The ULTIMATE. Carla Main, an investigative reporter, wrote a riveting book about the abuse of eminent domain power in Freeport, Texas. Any reasoanble reader would find nothing defamatory as to any individual. The book, Bulldozed, dealt with the Texas oil baron who came back to 'redevelop' in his hometown (for profit)...
Utility Control
Posted on November 19, 2008Wayne Independent The Upper Delaware Council, Inc. (UDC) delivered testimony at a November 5 public hearing convened by the New York State Department of Public Service in Hancock to gather input on the application by New York Regional Interconnect, Inc...
Willets Point Plan
Posted on November 13, 2008NY1 The City Council voted late this afternoon 42-2 in favor of the controversial plan to redevelop the industrial Queens neighborhood Willets Point, shortly after the Council Land Use Committee's 19-2 approval of the plan. One council member abstained from voting...
Developer Bails in Indiana
Posted on November 11, 2008Indiana Business Cleveland-based Fairmount Properties has pulled out of a $100 million redevelopment project in downtown Fishers, northeast of Indianapolis. The developer says the current state of the economy, combined with the number of homes which would need to be acquired, makes it difficult to complete the project in Hamilton County...
Clearville Gas Drilling
Posted on November 10, 2008Altoona Mirror Ralph Blevins of Claysburg stood at a long table filled with materials on natural gas contracts and projects, picking up stacks of papers, skimming through them and trying to educate himself on what could happen to him in the near future...
Oklahoma Energy
Posted on November 05, 2008Journal Record When it comes to oil and gas production, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission is the agency in charge of regulation. The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality is in charge of regulating emissions and uses of carbon dioxide. So who is in charge of regulation when energy companies use carbon dioxide to extract more out of oil and natural gas wells? What if an energy company branches into the carbon sequestration business, collecting carbon dioxide in empty wells? Both the state and the federal government are sorting through the issue as new technologies are expanding the number of lucrative uses for carbon dioxide...
D.C. bill allowing eminent domain
Posted on October 31, 2008WTOP News WASHINGTON - The D.C. Council is considering a bill that would allow the city to use eminent domain to seize and redevelop nearly two dozen properties in southeast Washington. Legislation introduced by D.C. Council Member Marion Barry targets three areas east of the Anacostia River...
Placement of Transmission Lines
Posted on October 28, 2008Salt Lake Tribune Bear River Valley landowners, angry over Rocky Mountain Power's route for a major northern Utah transmission line, have arrived at a sobering conclusion. “The power in Rocky Mountain Power means something other than electricity,” says Richard Nicholas, whose land here will be traversed by the 345-kilovolt line scheduled to begin construction soon...
An example of the Kelo aftermath
Posted on October 22, 2008thefacts.com Over the course of the project since its inception in the early 2000s, officials have debated the project’s need. The marina survived six years of political power struggles and court battles. Many opposed the city’s attempted use of eminent domain to secure dockfront property for the marina...
Gas Line in Southern Richland County
Posted on October 20, 2008North Central Ohio The organization OPORR, Ohioans Protecting Our Resources and Rights, is fighting an attempt by Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. to take control of property rights in southern Richland County. The group held a public awareness meeting Thursday night at the Clear Fork Adult Center to discuss Columbia's proposal to expand its Weaver Gas Storage Field to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission...
Good Faith Offer
Posted on October 17, 2008News Dispatch MICHIGAN CITY - A judge has ordered owners of the Weber Sign Service and Icehouse properties to select an appraiser to determine the value of properties at the corner of Michigan Boulevard and Eighth Street. It's a win for the city, which has been trying to acquire those properties to begin development of the Trail Creek Corridor and had resorted to eminent domain to acquire them...
St. Paul Port Authority Taking
Posted on October 17, 2008Twin Cities The St. Paul Port Authority, tasked with bringing business into St. Paul, is kicking out a profitable, tax-paying, unsubsidized, woman-owned, 48-year-old family business. It is a company that pays its 43 employees — nearly half of whom are union members — an average wage of $24 per hour with full medical benefits...
Alternative Energy Exploration
Posted on October 15, 2008Heartland Institute -This is an intriguing article. It questions the propriety of government tax benefits to the energy 'developer'. The problem is one of wobbly matched pairs. We have subsidized oil and gas exploration for over sixty years...
Kentucky American Pipeline
Posted on October 13, 2008State Journal Four landowners opposed to the Kentucky American Water pipeline under construction in Franklin County are questioning the company's right to acquire an easement through condemnation. They're claiming that KAW "a private for-profit water company, does not, under Kentucky law, have the power of eminent domain to condemn easements on private property in Franklin County...
Rail Taking in Adrian
Posted on October 08, 2008Daily Telegram An eminent domain claim was granted Monday in Lenawee County Circuit Court, giving the Adrian & Blissfield Rail Road Co. a small lot in Blissfield it says is needed for a new depot. Attorneys for lot owner Daniel Hacker objected, arguing the railroad has not proven a need for his property...
Airport pays for delay
Posted on October 01, 2008The Morning Call The authority that runs Lehigh Valley International Airport now owes more than $24 million for 632 acres it took more than a decade ago from a developer that planned to build homes and a golf course, a Lehigh County judge has ruled. A jury in March decided that the Lehigh-Northampton Airport Authority owed WBF Associates $10...
Kentucky American Pipeline
Posted on September 26, 2008State Journal Four landowners opposed to the Kentucky American Water pipeline under construction in Franklin County are questioning the company's right to acquire an easement through condemnation. They're claiming that KAW "a private for-profit water company, does not, under Kentucky law, have the power of eminent domain to condemn easements on private property in Franklin County...
Rails Condemnation
Posted on September 25, 2008KCAU-TV Former South Dakota Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Miller is questioning the legality of a 2008 state law aimed at speeding up the eminent domain process. At a hearing this week, Miller agreed with landowners who want more time to prepare for a hearing on the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad's application to condemn land for its proposed $6 billion coal train and rail renovation project...
Tenants' Rights
Posted on September 22, 2008South Town Star With negotiations over the Orland Plaza at an apparent standstill, Orland Park has begun condemnation proceedings against the owners of the village's oldest shopping center. Orland Plaza owners and the mall's tenants were notified Tuesday after the village board approved an ordinance Monday and filed court paperwork to begin eminent domain proceedings Tuesday...
Bridge Delays
Posted on September 17, 2008Detroit News A legislative impasse continued Tuesday morning over the location and ownership of a proposed second bridge across the Detroit River between Detroit and Windsor, threatening to derail the 2009 state transportation budget and funding for road projects already under construction...
Casino Taking
Posted on September 13, 2008The News Dispatch "I believe the end is near," Mike Bergerson, attorney for the Michigan City Redevelopment Commission, told commissioners Monday. He was talking about an end to legal wrangling between the city and the owners of Trail Creek property at the corner of Michigan Boulevard and Eighth Street...
Waterfront Taking
Posted on September 08, 2008WAVY TV 10 On Thursday, there was a rally pitting homeowners against government. The Johnson's Crab House is in the cross-hairs of Portsmouth City Council, which has voted twice to condemn the property in order to turn it into a public park. Three generations of Johnsons own and operate the Johnson's Crab House - a place where you pick up live or steamed crabs and go...
Acquiring Property to Stop Development
Posted on September 02, 2008Sherwood Voice Task force member Mary Peyton was interrupted several times by members asking whether she didn’t have a vested interest in the project because she was doing real estate work for another of developer Charles Hinson’s subdivisions...
Pennichuck
Posted on August 29, 2008Nashua Telegraph Pennichuck Corp. has named Roland E. Olivier, a longtime corporate attorney, to a new position of general counsel to guide the company in its eminent domain fight with the city of Nashua. The company said Monday that Olivier also will direct Southwood Corp...
Asking Judge to Reconsider
Posted on August 27, 2008Indy Star Hamilton County officials have decided they want a judge to reconsider his ruling in an eminent domain lawsuit that would provide additional parking in downtown Noblesville. Superior Court 1 Judge Steve Nation ruled against the county in July in its attempt to obtain land through condemnation of McMillan's Auto Care in the 500 block of Conner Street...
Clear Fork Valley Storage Field
Posted on August 22, 2008WMFD TV- Click to see video A citizens' group formed in the Clear Fork Valley is ready to do battle with a corporate giant. Representatives of Ohioans Protecting Our Resources and Rights, called on the Richland County Commissioners to outline their disagreement with the Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation...
Detroit Bridge
Posted on August 19, 2008Detroit News The Michigan Court of Appeals on Wednesday confirmed an earlier Wayne County Circuit Court ruling that the owners of the Ambassador Bridge don't have the power to condemn property for access improvements being undertaken through an agreement with the state...
Roundabouts
Posted on August 18, 2008Hutchinson News By passage of a resolution, the Reno County Commission took the first step this week toward acquiring land by eminent domain for the future roundabout at 56th Avenue and Plum Street. Three parcels - on the northwest corner, southwest corner and east of the intersection - are involved...
Pinion Canyon
Posted on August 11, 2008The Pueblo ChieftainRep. Mark Udall, D-Colo., is asking Defense Secretary Robert Gates for official assurances that the Army will not use condemnation in trying to acquire another 100,000 acres for the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site northeast of Trinidad...
Pipeline In Pennsylvania
Posted on August 06, 2008Altoona MirrorSpectra has begun work on a proposed natural gas storage field and pipeline system after being approved by the FERC last month.Shortly thereafter, however, residents who will be affected by the project contacted FERC with concerns, forcing the commission to order a rehearing and consider the issues they brought up...
Clearville Storage Rights
Posted on August 01, 2008We Are Central PAA Texas-based company wants to put natural gas wells in Clearville, Bedford County, and they're trying to use eminent domain to do it. Some property owners there say they're being treated unfairly.Paul Stup and other several landowners had a lease agreement with a company PG&E...
Owner's Gas Storage Rights
Posted on July 31, 2008Mirror TakesA Texas-based private natural gas company says it is filing for control of several Clearville properties after more than a year of unsuccessful communication and outreach with landowners who do not support its proposed project.Meanwhile, a major federal regulatory agency is concerned about the landowners' complaints and has filed for additional time and a rehearing addressing the potential project...
DTW plans on hold
Posted on July 23, 2008Detroit NewsDetroit Metropolitan Airport is expected to end a bitter battle with Romulus leaders by shelving plans for a controversial fifth parallel runway the city claimed would displace 3,500 residents, close two elementary schools and wipe out nearly 50 businesses...
Fairness in the Judicial Process
Posted on July 18, 2008STL TodayA St. Louis jury awarded $2.8 million on Friday to the former owner of two acres just north of the Edwards Jones Dome downtown in a fight over eminent domain. The city's Land Clearance for Redevelopment Agency condemned the two-acre tract after the owner refused sell it in 2005 for $523,000...
Pipeline Takings
Posted on July 14, 2008Star TelegramWhen a gas drilling company wants a piece of land for a pipeline, its representative usually shows up at the owner’s door with a letter from the Texas Railroad Commission, stating that the company has a right to take the land.Pipeline companies can condemn land because they’re considered either utility companies, which serve the public the same as Atmos or TXU, or "common carriers," a legal term that means they carry oil or gas for anyone...
School Taking
Posted on July 07, 2008Fosters Daily DemocratUntil September 2006, the option of expanding the middle school onto Alumni Field was believed to be off the table. A deed restriction on the property — which was donated to the city by the Peirce family in 1913 with the stipulation that it remain a park — requires the city to go through eminent domain proceedings to use the property for anything else...
Challenges to Legislative Change
Posted on July 01, 2008Delaware OnlineMembers of the House and Senate have said a new eminent domain law is a priority. Last week, in an attempt to get the nod from Minner, both removed the state Department of Transportation, which condemns land for road construction, from the legislation...
Failure to Refer Vote
Posted on June 29, 2008Sioux City JournalAn eminent domain law passed by the South Dakota Legislature this year will take effect Tuesday as scheduled. Secretary of State Chris Nelson says a group that wanted to refer it to a public vote was about 1,600 signatures short of the number needed to put it on the November ballot...
Residents Leaving Baltimore
Posted on June 27, 2008WJZ.comBaltimore's use of eminent domain and high property taxes have caused residents and businesses to leave the city, according to a report by a Loyola College economist.The city's policies especially in the developing Charles Center neighborhood and the Inner Harbor have resulted in Baltimore's high crime rate, poverty and declining neighborhoods, Stephen J...
US 24 Taking
Posted on June 24, 2008Toledo BladeThe state wants to use a small part of the land of Eugene Ward, on Box Road near Grand Rapids, Ohio, for the new U.S. 24. ODOT is offering Mr. Ward $300 for the land; Mr. Ward is holding out for $3,000. A surveyor’s measurement is in question...
Uphill Battle in Rail Condemnation
Posted on June 18, 2008Grand Forks HeraldThe signatures still need to be verified, but a group trying to keep a South Dakota law on land condemnation from going into effect has turned in petitions to put the issue on the November ballot.The group Protect Private Property wants to kill the law passed this year that would speed the hearing process for a railroad to take property under eminent domain...
Local Government Attacks Private Use
Posted on June 16, 2008DelMarvaNowRepresentative of local governments across the state are criticizing a bill that limits the use of eminent domain in Delaware to public purposes. The bill, sponsored by Laurel Democrat Robert Venables, was scheduled for a Senate vote later today...
Border Takings
Posted on May 19, 2008The Brownsville HeraldBefore construction can begin on the border fence, the federal government must purchase a large stretch of South Texas land from private landowners. But in Cameron County, the government's offers have been met with resistance from residents unwilling to sell their land...
Monroe County Taking
Posted on May 04, 2008Register HeraldThe Monroe County Commission is attempting to obtain ownership of a cemetery, using its powers of eminent domain, because the private owner allegedly has “desecrated the burial ground” by removing tombstones and allowing “raw sewage” to run over graves...
Whether the Kentucky State Constitution empowers Universities with the authority to take land?
Posted on May 02, 2008The Time Tibune, April 30, 2008Surely, Northern Kentucky University land-grabbers don’t think they can use eminent domain to seize private property for a new athletic complex. Or do they? You never know what people in power, who seem to disdain the sacredness of private-property rights, are capable of doing...
Motor Speedway Project
Posted on April 22, 2008The Indy Channel, April 20, 2008Speedway is a step closer to making big changes near the Indianapolis Motor Speedway despite the efforts of some residents to derail the project. Some people are upset that the Speed Zone development plan would force them off their properties...
Hospital Takings
Posted on March 31, 2008www.springfieldnewssun.com, 03/28/2008 The City of Springfield has the right use eminent domain to acquire Robinson Insulation, Common Pleas Court Judge Richard Carey ruled Friday, March 28. The property owners, Garth and Jennifer Robinson, had challenged the city's right to take their property, which would be razed to make room for Community Mercy Health Partner's new downtown hospital complex slated to open in 2012...
Construction at McGalliard Road
Posted on March 17, 2008The Star Press, March 17, 2008The state hopes to raise the bypass over McGalliard Road, building entrance and exit ramps, according to INDOT spokesman Harry Maginity. In an unrelated development, INDOT also announced it would resume plans to build an overpass that would carry Centennial Avenue over the bypass...
Salute to Bill Moore
Posted on March 10, 2008Herald Tribune, March 10, 2008 Hanging in the Sarasota conference room of law firm Brigham Moore is an earth-tone print of six Plains Indians seated and standing around a table with a parchment copy of the U.S. Bill of Rights in the background. For Bill Moore, one of the law firm's named partners, the print is a reminder of one of the greatest land crimes ever perpetrated by the U...
Federal Power Line Plan
Posted on March 08, 2008WASHINGTON (AP), March 6, 2008 New power line construction is more likely in the Mid-Atlantic States and the Southwest after the government on Thursday said it was pushing ahead with a plan to expand and modernize the electric grid in those areas. The U...
Plans to transform Anacostia
Posted on March 05, 2008Washington Business Journal, March 3,2008Anacostia is getting a long-desired makeover, courtesy of a familiar name. George Curtis III, whose family's furniture company built the 19-foot high chair at V Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE, is teaming with D...
DM&E Railroad
Posted on February 20, 2008Rapid City Journal, February 13, 2008The South Dakota Senate has approved a measure intended to speed up state hearings on the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad's application to acquire land by condemnation for its $6 billion expansion project...
Atlantic Yards
Posted on February 08, 2008The City of NY runs to its own clock. The use of mass transit creates an economy is which a central part of the transportation scheme is to have the most dense uses near the subway stops, with the heaviest uses, such as arenas and high rises near stations where possible...
Eminent Domain Sought For Ice House
Posted on January 20, 2008The News Dispatch, January 19, 2008MICHIGAN CITY - An obstacle in the city's plans to redevelop the North End could become moot soon after a lawsuit was filed to condemn two properties near Michigan Boulevard and Eighth Street. Michigan City Redevelopment Commission Attorney Michael Bergerson said Friday he'd filed the suit last week in La Porte Superior Court 3...
Belleville Development
Posted on January 20, 2008Ann Arbor News, January 18, 2008A major grocery store topped by a spacious public library is the centerpiece of a vision for downtown Belleville unveiled at a special meeting Wednesday. At a joint meeting of the Belleville City Council and Downtown Development Authority started at City Hall, Rick Walker of Walker Developments, based in Montreal, said a national grocery store chain was interested in building downtown...
Ramada Inn on Belmont
Posted on January 16, 2008WYTV, January 16, 2008 Township officials say developers have already bought the land at the old Ramada Inn on Belmont Avenue for an unspecified project that may bring in major retailers. Now all they need to get the deal through is this fifty foot strip of land, where developers want to put in a stop light...
Water Company's Rights
Posted on January 09, 2008An Aqua Indiana customer on Windsor Road, Steger bought a water softener and replaced a dishwasher and garbage disposal because of the harshness of his water, he said. But the somewhat graphic description of his water’s color is the most telling...
Oceana Airport
Posted on December 31, 2007Airport Business, December 27, 2007Faced with the possibility of losing state money for land acquisition at the airport, the Oceana County Board has approved a resolution authorizing the acquisition by Eminent Domain if necessary. A local consultant, in airport acquisitions, commented that cases usually settle through negotiation...
Hollywood and Eminent Domain Abuse
Posted on December 18, 2007Reason Online, December 18, 2007 Drew Carey, Hollywood comedian, recently revisited eminent domain abuse in Hollywood. This film is an excellent demonstration of how eminent domain affects businesses and landowners. The city of Anaheim demonstrates that eminent domain is not the exclusive option for economic redevelopment...
Willets Point
Posted on November 30, 2007Times Ledger, November 23, 2007Former Borough President Claire Shulman continued her cross-borough tour in support of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Willets Point redevelopment plan Monday night, telling the Queens Civic Congress she expects a legal battle to take place, but does not believe eminent domain will be used by the city...
Costs may outweigh the benefits
Posted on November 29, 2007Tri Cities, November 27, 2007BRISTOL, Va. – Despite a recent favorable court ruling, city leaders may opt to abandon the controversial Mendota Trail project. The proposed hiking and biking trail from the city limits to the Scott County, Va., line has already cost the city more than $600,000, City Manager Bill Dennison said...
Blue Water Bridge Expansion: What you really need to know
Posted on November 28, 2007thetimesherald.com, November 20,2007Mike Connell recently posed a Q and A in his article to address, in his opinion, possible issues with the Blue Water Bridge expansion. However some of the questions and answers are flawed. For example, Mr. Connell quotes the MDOT as stating that owners are better off selling the property because they obtain 125% of their own value...
What to do when facing Eminent Domain
Posted on November 22, 2007The Monroe News recently published a very informative article on what to do when you are faced with eminent domain.If you're approached by an oil company, gas company, or any other utility, eminent domain attorney Alan Ackerman says there are a few things you can do to ensure you're treated fairly...
Land Taken for Road
Posted on November 21, 2007Washington Post, November 23, 2007Maryland highway officials and the philanthropic Eugene B. Casey Foundation are battling in court over the state's decision to seize 405 acres of the foundation's land for the intercounty connector, even though the land is seven miles from the highway's planned route...
Be Cautious Before Signing Leases
Posted on November 16, 2007Weekly Almanac, EditorialSome Wayne County landowners, particularly in the northern part of the county, have the opportunity to make royalties off their land by singing leases with natural gas companies that have been looking to acquire drilling rights here...
EnCap Investigation
Posted on November 06, 2007North Jersey, October 23, 2007North Arlington officials on Monday called for a federal investigation into the "entire sorry episode" of the controversial EnCap proposal to build a massive golf course-residential-retail complex in three Bergen County communities...
Algonquin Gas Transmission, Intent to Prepare an EIS
Posted on October 30, 2007Trading Markets, October 24, 2007The staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) will prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) that will identify and address the environmental impacts that could result from the construction and operation of the East to West HubLine Expansion Project (E2W Project or Project)...
Marthon Pipeline Construction
Posted on October 22, 2007UPDATE: Right of way agencies are once again contacting owners.Detroit News, September 19, 2007City Council members grilled officials from Marathon Petroleum on Tuesday over the environmental impact of its $1.5 billion refinery expansion proposal and put pressure on the company to commit to hiring more Detroiters and minorities...
Farmers Not Looking to Sell
Posted on October 18, 2007YouNewsTV, October 17, 2007A local landfill has agreed to pay for a much needed sewer treatment plant near Wyatt. In exchange, the landfill could purchase land from farmers without rezoning. Waste Management has offered to pay for the $1.5 million plant, but in return, it wants an overlay district created around the Prairie View Landfill...
County Purchases Another Utility
Posted on October 13, 2007Shorelines, October 11, 2007St. Johns County Utility is ready to finalize a deal to buy intercoastal Utilities. Some people still think the price is too high. Appraised at $24.5 million, the aging water and sewer system serves about 4,500 residents in Ponte Vedra Beach and Palm Valley...
Clarksville May Condemn Peddler's Property
Posted on October 09, 2007News and Tribune, October 4, 2007The town of Clarksville says it may condemn a portion of the Peddler's Mall property in order to pursue a revitalization project on Easter Boulevard.The condemnation being discussed would not affect the building but would lay claim to about 25 feet of road frontage...
Crude-Oil Pipeline: Pontiac to Patoka
Posted on October 05, 2007Pantagraph, October 1, 2007LeRoy attorney and political activist is recruiting clients to fight an eminent-domain request to build a crude-oil pipeline from Pontiac to Patoka in Southern Illinois. Millions of dollars in payments to landowners hang in the outcome of Enbridge Inc’s request from eminent domain...
The Value of a Mile
Posted on October 02, 2007Columus Dispatch, September 29, 2007When Canal Winchester offered Richard "Pete" Stebelton $9,249 for a 1-mile strip of his property, Stebelton thought the payment was too low. This month, a Franklin County Common Pleas jury decided the village should pay the farmer and used-car dealer $595,625...
Detroit Heavy Oil Upgrade Project
Posted on September 23, 2007Monroe News, September 22, 2007The old real estate maxim is proving itself once again - this time when it comes to installing an oil pipeline. Although some property owners don't want any kind of expanded oil pipeline running through their yards, others are okay with it - sort of...
Detroit News Opinion
Posted on September 20, 2007Detroit News, September 18, 2007Hartland Township residents have enlisted state legislators in their battle against a plan to build overhead electric transmission lines through the county, but that's not an appropriate way to deal with the issue. Officials in the Livingston County community and some residents have been protesting a state-approved plan for more than a year that allows ITC Transmission to install 95-foot tall power poles for the delivery of electricity to the growing area...
Marathon Pipeline Slows
Posted on September 12, 2007Detroit News, September 4, 2007Marathon cleared a hurdle this morning toward a proposed $1 billion expansion of its Detroit refinery.The expansion would add 135 jobs at the refinery and increase gasoline supplies in Michigan. The project would also create 1200 construction jobs...
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