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New Compensation Method for Eminent Domain: The Special Purpose Development Corporation

A modern compensation method for eminent domain is on the horizon. The Center for Rural Affairs discusses utilizing market driven compensation for rural land owners facing transmission line siting through their property.

Will it be out with fair market value and in with market driven compensation? [Center for Rural Affairs]

Texas Tea Party Requests Information Concerning Eminent Domain from a Texas Water District

In what is likely a nod to future events, the Texas Tea Party Caucus has requested public documents from Tarrant Regional Water District. The allegations include “a long-running eminent domain scheme.”

Strategic use of legal public information requests is de rigueur in Texas politics. {Breibart]

A U.S. Senator asks, “How will land owners be compensated?"

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) wants to buy wind energy from Oklahoma. Oklahoma and Tennessee share no borders. To bring wind energy to TN, it requires 700 miles of transmission lines through Arkansas.

My solution on how to build 700 miles of transmission lines through Arkansas: Football. Let the Sooners, Cowboys, Razorbacks, and Volunteers decide if the plan moves forward. If the Volunteers beat either Oklahoma team, then there’s a deal. If, the Razorbacks b…

Be Open, Be Fair, Be Conservative: Advice from an Eminent Domain Appraiser

Succinct advice for eminent domain and for life. Maintain Open Communication with the land owners. Offer fair property values. Use eminent domain conservatively.

Dear Abby might translate this to- keep open communication; be fair to each other; and use ultimatums sparingly, if at all. Life lessons from eminent domain. [IRR on Real Estate]

Eminent Domain Gets Top Billing This Weekend in The New York Times Magazine

This article has it all. Environmentalists are living in tree houses, tracking the progress of condemning entities. A California Billionaire is interested in rural organizing to stop or slow Keystone Pipeline. A lawyer gives advice to condemning entities to avoid coming in with “corporate weaponry blazing.” Aggressive foreigners taunting us from afar with their oil reserves or their vintage Bordeaux. A new CIA- the Cowboy and Indian Alliance.

This article lends…

Landowners are told No, No by the Texas Supreme Court. Legislators Start Drafting Bills.

Today the Texas Supreme Court denied a second motion for re-hearing by The Crawford Family Farm Partnership. They’ve been engaged in years of legal tussling to prevent the TransCanada Keystone pipeline from crossing their land. There have been temporary restraining orders, appeals, hearings, re-hearings. If there is a legal motion, its been filed. If there is a news publication, they’ve run a piece on the Keystone pipeline. The lawyers and PR folks are earning their keep.

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The Feds are Using Eminent Domain Against a Large State

A potential precursor to the Bureau of Land Management tussle with Texas, the U.S. government has filed an eminent domain suit against California. A developer acquired land at a federal auction. He wants to do what he does- redevelop, but the street leading to the area needs improvement. The Feds are claiming eminent domain to upgrade a road for its building and any other related purpose, including a sale of government land. Posted by adminMay 2, 2014Posted ineconomic development

Eminent Domain trend from Odessa, Texas, not Odessa, Ukraine.

One Odessa is growing, the other Odessa may be facing Russian troops. Odessa, Texas is growing. A convention center and hotel development is eyed to spur economic growth in its quiet downtown. With a disinclination to use eminent domain, the fate of downtown redevelopment is firmly in the hands of business owners. [CBS7KOSA…

$2.1 M jury award. $80,000 offer.

What happens to cause a jury award to exceed an initital offer by more than $2 million?

According to lawyers its a message that jurors want pipelines to know how much damage they cause land owners.

Peregrine Pipeline Co., L.P. v. Eagle Ford Land Partners, LP, No. E-2007-00046

TPPF is on the case in 2015.

Legislating land speculation is the legislative fight du jour. It’s a big battle over property rights in the Sooner State.

Private property rights supporters love it. The business community, utilities, pipelines, and municipalities say it will handcuff the state’s ability to grow.[News OK]

This is one to watch. In Texas, the FBI is investigating right of way purchases in North Texas, which some say was land speculating because of the potential use of eminent domain while constructing I-35E.