{"id":841,"date":"2017-07-08T23:56:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-08T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2017\/07\/08\/legal-trend-is-the-land-owner-bill-of-rights-mandatory-in-this-state-cities-say-no\/"},"modified":"2017-07-08T23:56:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T23:56:00","slug":"legal-trend-is-the-land-owner-bill-of-rights-mandatory-in-this-state-cities-say-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/legal-trend-is-the-land-owner-bill-of-rights-mandatory-in-this-state-cities-say-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Trend. Is the Land Owner Bill of Rights Mandatory? In this state, cities say no."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Georgia, cities are arguing before the Georgia Supreme Court that the 2006 Land Owner Bill of Rights is not mandatory and there is no enforcement mechanism.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Landowners in Marietta say that the Land Owners Bill of Rights is mandatory.<\/p>\n<p>Background of the eminent domain dispute:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>City offers $85,000 to build a park.<\/li>\n<li>Court awards $225,000 for the only black grocery store in a historically black district.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Court said the city violated the Land Owner Bill of Rights by not acting transparently when it kept appraisals from the land owner.<\/li>\n<li>The City attorneys argue that since the Land Owner Bill of rights has no enforcement mechanism, a line of case law says the law isn&#8217;t mandatory but rather discretionary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myajc.com\/news\/local-govt--politics\/landowner-bill-rights-tested-georgia-supreme-court\/2TWiZoyvR0asAaz42eOl4I\/\">Atlanta Journal Constitution |\u00a0Landowner\u2019s Bill of Rights tested at Georgia Supreme Court<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Georgia, cities are arguing before the Georgia Supreme Court that the 2006 Land Owner Bill of Rights is not mandatory and there is no enforcement mechanism.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Landowners in Marietta say that the Land Owners Bill of Rights is mandatory.<\/p>\n<p>Background of the eminent domain dispute:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>City offers $85,000 to build a park.<\/li>\n<li>Court awards $225,000 for the only black grocery store in a historically black district.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Court said the city violated the Land Owner Bill of Rights by not acting transparently\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,37,40,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-trend","category-local-government-trend","category-parks","category-private-property-rights","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","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=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}