Welcome to the Future!
The City: Sandy Springs, GA
How does this work in Georgia, where there is a separate eminent domain for the billboard? Georgia’s laws allow for billboard relocatation somewhere within 250 feet in lieu of an eminent domain reimbursement, if the city has a billboard relocation ordinance.
What has the city offered? A city ordinance that allows for billboard relocation if:
The City: Oklahoma City, OK
The Entertainment Distict: Bricktown
The city’s goal with the property acquisition: make it easier for people to get into Bricktown
The land the city needs to get to this goal of easy access: A U-Haul Parking Lot
Is UHaul agreeable: Yes to the project. No to the city offered compensation.
What was the business response: An open letter to the City that makes these points:
A billionaire in California bought property on Martin’s Beach. Martin’s is a popular surfing spot. The billionaire cut off public access to the beach.
Round and round went lawyers, state commissions on land use, and then came California’s Senate Bill 42 that allows California to use eminent domain to guarantee public access for the surfers and beach goers.
But, how is California going to pay for this public access its acquiring from the billionaire? Via donation.
Senate Bill 42 allows the…
Kansas Supreme Court ruled in late July 2017 that a violation of a restrictive covenant by an entity with the power of eminent domain is a taking requiring compensation requiring just compensation.
Thats a lot of legal words, what does it mean? In this Kansas case it means that Kansas DOT acquired land that was restricted to single family homes via restricted covenant. When KSDOT builds a bridge or roadway on that land it creates a compensable damage to the subdivision that created the…
TPPF position is that tree ordinances are:
Wisconsin legislators are working to bolster the state’s Landowner Bill of Rights by:
The goals of the bill are prevent another Murr situation by ensuring that:
State: Louisiana
The eminent domain issue: A private dock entity, Violet Dock Port, had been operating in St. Bernardship parish. The Port Authority wanted to acquire its private competitor. Violet and the Port couldn’t agree on a price, so the Port Authority used eminent domain & began operating the Dock Port.
The Louisiana Constitution says: “no business enterprise or any of its assets shall be taken for the purpose of operating that enterprise or halting competition with a government…
California Supreme Court limits the right to precondemantion access in that:
To make the California Supreme Court ruling align with California Statutes, the California Law Revision Commission is recommending changes to the request code sections that will clarify the jury requirement for compensation.
Why…
The alleged crimes: “fraud by getting inside information from the Texas Department of Transportation to buy cheap land alongside Interstate 35E and then flip it to the state at inflated prices”
How was the land value increased? land underdevelopment was considered to be a higher value
The “profit” generated by these sales to TXDOT? $12.6Million
Private property rights groups say the eminent domain bills of the Texas Legislature are too watered down to support.
The bills do not protect propety owners by not:
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