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In which house district is this occuring? HD-2 (Flynn)
What are activists saying about eminent domain and toll roads?
Wharton area residents are reciving information on Comptroller Hegar’s legislative enacted Eminent Domain transperancy data base set to go online soon.
Wharton Journal Spectator | New law promotes transparency for eminent domain
Where is this eminent domain case occurring? The San Benito County, California
What’s the project being built? bridge
What’s the impetus of the cost increase? Legal feees associated with eminent domain
What is the predicted cost increase? From $50,000 to acquire land to $300,000
Benito Link | Eminent domain causes bridge construction legal costs to balloon
The Blaze | Donald Trump Defends Eminent Domain — Here’s Why He Claims the Power Is ‘Needed’
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.
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:
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…
A North Carolina Appeallate Court ruled that widening a road, at the end of a dead end street, does not qualify as a public use.
As a reminder that it’s really just your bad local governments that use eminent domain, the Department of Justice has put up a series of delightful photos detailing the history of eminent domain use by the federal government.
The History lesson:
Iowa’s proposal to require condemning entities to negoitate agreements for 75% of the land it needs to aquire continues to move rapidly through the Iowa Legislature. It is expected to easily make it to the Governor’s desk for his signature. WNAX