{"id":434,"date":"2015-12-18T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2015\/12\/18\/how-a-244k-property-payment-by-a-sewer-district-became-a-12m-property-owner-award-4m-in-attorney-fees\/"},"modified":"2015-12-18T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T18:45:00","slug":"how-a-244k-property-payment-by-a-sewer-district-became-a-12m-property-owner-award-4m-in-attorney-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/how-a-244k-property-payment-by-a-sewer-district-became-a-12m-property-owner-award-4m-in-attorney-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"How a $244K property payment by a Sewer District became a $12M property owner award + $4M in attorney fees."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What&#8217;s this eminent domain case about?<\/strong>\u00a0New York&#8217;s\u00a0Rockland County Sewer District No. 1 needs to build a new wastewater treatment facility\u00a0&amp; sought to acquire 21 acres.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did the court decide?<\/strong>\u00a0The property is worth\u00a0$8,100,000 plus $4,762,187 interest, a total of $12,877,061. PLUS, the court awarded $<strong>$3,375,000\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0in legal and appraisal fees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did the sewer district estimate the cost of the project to be?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0$72 Million.\u00a0After this court case, the project estiamte is $181 Million.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lohud.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2015\/03\/09\/state-high-court-denies-ramapo-sewer-district-condemnation-appeal\/24669669\/\">LoHud Journal News |\u00a0Ramapo sewer project cost jumps $12.7M<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/pr\/2778000#ixzz3uhSfUezz\">Digital Journal |\u00a0$3,375,000 Recovered for Attorneys Fee in Condemnation Case<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What&#8217;s this eminent domain case about?<\/strong>\u00a0New York&#8217;s\u00a0Rockland County Sewer District No. 1 needs to build a new wastewater treatment facility\u00a0&amp; sought to acquire 21 acres.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did the court decide?<\/strong>\u00a0The property is worth\u00a0$8,100,000 plus $4,762,187 interest, a total of $12,877,061. PLUS, the court awarded $<strong>$3,375,000\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0in legal and appraisal fees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did the sewer district estimate the cost of the project to be?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0$72 Million.\u00a0After this court case, the project estiamte is $181&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,2,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compensation","category-legal-trend","category-private-property-rights","category-special-districts","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","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=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}