{"id":173,"date":"2015-02-16T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2015\/02\/16\/eminent-domain-for-open-space-not-so-fast-woody-guthrie\/"},"modified":"2015-02-16T23:59:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T23:59:00","slug":"eminent-domain-for-open-space-not-so-fast-woody-guthrie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/eminent-domain-for-open-space-not-so-fast-woody-guthrie\/","title":{"rendered":"Eminent Domain for Open Space? Not so fast Woody Guthrie."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado &amp; Texas are both proposing bills that would prohibit eminent domain for open space land. Woody Guthrie wasn&#8217;t being literal when he wrote, \u00a0&#8220;This land is my land, this land is your land.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In Colorado, the bill would prohibit a county from acquiring land for open space via eminent domain. It stems from mining property that a county acquired with eminent domain after some permitting issues. The acquisition of the land was at 4 times appraised value. The odds of fair comepnsation are high, but the author of the Colorado\u00a0bill believes no property owner shold be forced to sell their land.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.9news.com\/story\/news\/local\/politics\/2015\/02\/16\/eminent-domain-colorado-open-space-summit-county\/23522423\/\">9 News<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therepublic.com\/view\/story\/3c57c343b95d47178d8715c24050dfd7\/CO--Seizing-Land-for-Public-Space\">AP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Texas, Seantor Nichols&#8217;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.state.tx.us\/BillLookup\/History.aspx?LegSess=84R&amp;Bill=SB178\">SB 178<\/a>\u00a0would prohibit all condeming entities from acquiring land for recreational purposes. His bill will cover parks, greenbelts, trails and the like.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado &amp; Texas are both proposing bills that would prohibit eminent domain for open space land. Woody Guthrie wasn&#8217;t being literal when he wrote, \u00a0&#8220;This land is my land, this land is your land.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In Colorado, the bill would prohibit a county from acquiring land for open space via eminent domain. It stems from mining property that a county acquired with eminent domain after some permitting issues. The acquisition of the land was at 4 times appraised value. The odds of fair come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-legislation","category-land-use","category-private-property-rights","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","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=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}