{"id":1173,"date":"2018-11-12T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2018\/11\/12\/legal-trend-litigating-texas-kelo-fix-2-potential-fixes-heading-to-a-legislature-near-you\/"},"modified":"2018-11-12T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T17:30:00","slug":"legal-trend-litigating-texas-kelo-fix-2-potential-fixes-heading-to-a-legislature-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/legal-trend-litigating-texas-kelo-fix-2-potential-fixes-heading-to-a-legislature-near-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal TREND. Litigating Texas Kelo Fix. 2 Potential Fixes Heading to a Legislature near you."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.search.txcourts.gov\/Case.aspx?cn=17-0850&amp;coa=cossup\">KMS RETAIL ROWLETT v. the City of Rowlett<\/a>, the Texas Supreme Court this fall heard arguments over whether a road easement in a commercial development project violated the Texas Legislture&#8217;s legislative repsonse to Kelo v. City of New London.<\/p>\n<p>The trial court and appellate court agreed that the roadway easement falls into \u00a0a transportation\u00a0exception on the prohibtion against eminent domain for economic development purposes in\u00a0Texas\u00a0Government Code Sec. 2206.001<\/p>\n<p>What legislative fixes could arise?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>eliminating driveways from transportation exception<\/li>\n<li>whether private parties can reap any financial gain from eminent domain<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/dallas\/news\/2018\/11\/08\/rowlett-condemnation-case-tests-post-kelo-statute.html\">Dallas Business Journal |\u00a0Rowlett condemnation case tests post-Kelo statute<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.search.txcourts.gov\/Case.aspx?cn=17-0850&amp;coa=cossup\">KMS RETAIL ROWLETT v. the City of Rowlett<\/a>, the Texas Supreme Court this fall heard arguments over whether a road easement in a commercial development project violated the Texas Legislture&#8217;s legislative repsonse to Kelo v. City of New London.<\/p>\n<p>The trial court and appellate court agreed that the roadway easement falls into \u00a0a transportation\u00a0exception on the prohibtion against eminent domain for economic development purposes in\u00a0Texas\u00a0Government Code Sec. 2206.001<\/p>\n<p>What legislative fixes could\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,30,10,4,14,37,28,2,20,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-legislative-issue","category-co-development","category-economic-development","category-legal-trend","category-legislation-trend","category-local-government-trend","category-private-company","category-private-property-rights","category-process-procedure","category-public-use-or-benefit","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}