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What state, that’s NOT California, is looking to increase relocation costs? Pennsylvania
What are the current relocation cost rates in PA?
What damage cap rates for relocation costs in PA considering?
What’s this eminent domain case about? New York’s Rockland County Sewer District No. 1 needs to build a new wastewater treatment facility & sought to acquire 21 acres.
What did the court decide? The property is worth $8,100,000 plus $4,762,187 interest, a total of $12,877,061. PLUS, the court awarded $$3,375,000 in legal and appraisal fees.
What did the sewer district estimate the cost of the project to be? $72 Million. After this court case, the project estiamte is $181…
Background: In Florida to trigger quick take possession of land via eminent domain, the condeming entity has to deposit funds with the court.
Legal Fight Over Which Party Gets the Interest on Funds Held in an Eminent Domain case:
The Case: Livingston v. Frank, 150 So. 3d 239 (Fla. 2d DCA 2014)
How is this relevant to Texas? The Texas Supreme…
A unanimous jury in Tarrant County found Texas owed Speedway Grapevine I LLC more than 16 times what it was compensated in an eminent domain proceeding.
Speedway Grapewine I LLC won a $4.5 Million judgment in an eminent domain suit.
Farmers talking about a proposed west Texas pipeline that will bring products to Mexico.
AP via Washington Times | Some farmers in West Texas raise concerns about pipeline
The Legal Decision a Win for Landowners. Landowners in Long Beach, New York prevailed in court this week when an appeal by the city was denied.
$5.5M per landowner for undervalued land in eminent domain. The decision awards $19 million for land values, attorney fees and costs, plus interest to land owners. Each landowner was underpaid for property at the roughly $5.5 million each.
What is the city doing with this land? A Developer wants to build luxury apartments, retail space, and a…
In the 1950s and 1960s, a transportation authority in California gobbled up, with compensation, homes to make room for a freeway, and maybe some rail. High hopes. Big dreams of efficient transportation were for naught.
Nothing was built. But since the mid 1900s, the state has leased the homes to residents, who now hope to buy their abode.
Here’s the math, the homes were bought for $20,000ish, market price for nearby comparable homes now is $800,000.
California’s Governor Jerry Brown has proposed water tunnels to move water around California. California farmers have water and the cities need it.
To accomplish this great water migration, California is proposing to use eminent domain against 300 farms to build the 30-mile-long tunnels that will reshape the delta formed by the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers.
Landowners are facing a 30 day window to either accept or reject 1, single, offer from the state according to…
Officials in Tulsa, Oklahoma want to remove the statutory requirement that if landwoners at trial receive a value 10% higher than the special commissioners, then the local government has to pay the landwoner fees and expenses.
Paying attorney fees and expenses led to this comment by a Tulsa official: “That 10 percent rule is basically a pain in the neck,” Swiney said. “I think it leads to abuse. It leads to bill padding. It discourages settlement and encourages litigation.”