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During the vetting process, the new Ferris City Manager was asked about his stance on high speed rail, bouyed by allusions of the use of eminent domain.
Ellis County Commissioners Court opposes the high speed rail plan, in part because of the impact on farm land and the use of eminent domain.
Sherman, the new city manager, said he will be too busy running the city to get into politics like high speed rail.
The use of eminent domain for private gain, or in other words, the use of eminent domain by private comapnies like pipelines or transmission lines is dominating state assembly races.
It’s not just Rs and Ds rebuking pipelines for different reasons. Rs support private property rights. Ds are exhibiting a greater concern for environmental issues.
But, it’s also Libertarians, who are actively and viably challenging Republicans.
Rural opposition to high speed rail in Texas has a champion in the organization, Texans Against High Speed Rail.
Opponents to High Speed Rail wants 2 wishes granted:
New Jersey has the State Farmland Preservation Project. Farms that are active in the project are armed with information including:
“The Assuring Private Property Rights Over Vast Access to Land (APPROVAL) Act (H.R. 3062) directs:
The tax assessor for Belleville, NJ lowered a property value from $528,000 to $298,900 and then the city manager exercised eminent domain against the price-reduced property.
Belleville is a special case where the tax assessor and the city manager are the same person. Conflict of Interest? A glimpse into other property value manipulations throughout the country?
Richmond, California, home to eminent domain for underwater mortgages, is also home to a new bonding mechanism to fight blight.
In 2013, Richmond created “Richmond Community Foundation” which uses this bond mechanism for blight:
A Dallas man, who “wanted to stay where the hell he was and be left the hell alone,” is facing eminent domain to make way for a roadway for real estate development deal. That’s the jist of this Dallas Observer piece.
The piece says the public reason for the taking of his property is straightening an intersection 2 blocks away, but alludes to the real reason being a real estate development by former Cowboys.
Here’s what the landowner says transpired:
Eminent domain that benefits a private company could have new hurdles if federal legisaltion by Congressman Sensenbrenner passes.
Economic benefit to a private company from eminent domain would cost a state federal economic funds for 2 fiscal years after a court ruling that the federal law has been violated.
11 Ohio counties are in the path of a proposed pipeline that has solidified citizen action in opposition to the pipeline.
The pipeline has been trying for 1 year to access property for normal pre-condemnation access to properties. It hasn’t worked.
So, the pipeline filed suit, because people who are already heated over their desire to protect private property also love lawsuits. Not the best logic to gain support, but reasonable legal argument if public support is irrelevant.
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