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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.
Iowa was proposing that 75% of land for an eminent domain project be obtained with a willing buyer. The bill didn’t survive the legislature, but the author calls the session a success. The Iowa Speaker of the House says the issue will be back next year as vocal property owners are opposing pipelines in Iowa. The Gazette
Information Intelligence May 21, 2015:
Willing buyers are a hot topic in eminent domain. No one wants to be forced into selling their property. So, who doesn’t…
Savannah Georgia is managing blight by shaming property owners on their Top 100 Worst Properties list.
The list is compiled by:
The goal of the list: to reahbilitate blighted properties.
WTOC 11 City of Savannah completes work on quarter of 100 worst properties list
27 states and state agencies, as well as 14 agriculture-oriented organizations, have filed lawsuits across teh country to block the EPA water mapping project.
The EPA is seeking to map water flows, including mapping of low flow waterways on private property.
Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas filed suit in U.S. District Court in Galveston, Texas. Joining the suit in Galveston are: American Farm Bureau Federation, American Petroleum Institute, American Road and Transportation Builders…
The Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement joined a coalition called, Bakken Pipeline Resistance Coalition. It sounds like Occupy movement, which recently started promoting anti-eminetn domain causes, like this.
But, Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement is led by a 67 year old, retired former Department of Natural Resources official.
The whole shebang is encouraging more private negotiations. Iowa posts online negotiated easements, and the company cites 60% of the land being…
There’s a possibility eminent domain could be used for expanding the Convention Center. Perhaps maybe plus a whole slew of ther hedge words, eminent domain may be used for a project that includes a new Westin properties hotel on Ceasar Chavez near/linked to the Convention Center.
Naturally landowners and businesses are opposed to the use of eminent domain, but then the story gets interesting.
The response from the city on whether eminent domain is very nuances, let’s look:
16,000 signatures have been collected to opposed San Francisco’s short term rental ordinances.
Opposition to the short term ordinances includes:
Opposition stems from the San Francisco short term rental ordinance:
The initiative would amend the current short term rental ordinance to require:
A cap on the number of nights a unit could be rented at 75…
In a long attorney general opinion, relying on case law from Nevada to Florida, the attorney general of South Carolina has issued an opinion that an oil and gas pipeline in all likelihood does not get the privilege of eminent domain.
The opinion discusses South Carolina Courts, and other courts, striking down eminent domain for private companies.
Its a trend that has been sweeping the nation from courts to legislatures. Everyone is looking for a public use connected to the land that is…
TPPF says these 2015 bills would have helped:
Say you own property near a Native American reservation. Say you have to use a county road to reach your property, but the county road runs through tribal lands. Does the soveriegn authority of the tribe override your property rights to an easement that you have enjoyed?
Time will tell. Tribes in New Mexico are cutting off access to county roads that traverse tribal lands. Some non-tribal lands, that are wholly surrounded by tribal lands, may have no access to and from their…