{"id":956,"date":"2017-12-30T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T19:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2017\/12\/30\/this-texas-state-representative-describes-eminent-domain-as-driven-by\/"},"modified":"2017-12-30T19:44:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T19:44:00","slug":"this-texas-state-representative-describes-eminent-domain-as-driven-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/this-texas-state-representative-describes-eminent-domain-as-driven-by\/","title":{"rendered":"This Texas State Representative Describes Eminent Domain as driven by&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cecil Bell believes eminent domain reform is a <strong>&#8220;constituent-driven dialogue&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>His concern about eminent domain:<\/strong> &#8221;\u00a0got to do a better job as a state in trying to figure out how to balance between the intended very limited use of eminent domain and processes like that and where we find it being used today&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let&#8217;s diagram State Representative Bell&#8217;s eminent domain concern:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The big bad:<\/strong>\u00a0how eminent domain is being used today is not balanced &amp; the eminent domain scales are\u00a0tipped against constituents<\/li>\n<li><strong>The good use of eminent domain:<\/strong>\u00a0very limited<\/li>\n<li><strong>Where the legislative fixes appear:<\/strong>\u00a0what entities can use eminent domain + the process of how eminent domain takings happen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/neighborhood\/woodlands\/news\/article\/Villager-Q-A-Local-state-lawmaker-Cecil-Bell-12462178.php\">Houston Chronicle |\u00a0Villager Q &amp; A: Local state lawmaker Cecil Bell Jr.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cecil Bell believes eminent domain reform is a <strong>&#8220;constituent-driven dialogue&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>His concern about eminent domain:<\/strong> &#8221;\u00a0got to do a better job as a state in trying to figure out how to balance between the intended very limited use of eminent domain and processes like that and where we find it being used today&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let&#8217;s diagram State Representative Bell&#8217;s eminent domain concern:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The big bad:<\/strong>\u00a0how eminent domain is being used today is not balanced &amp; the eminent domain scales are\u00a0tipped against\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":[60,15,14,28,2,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-legislative-issue","category-fairness","category-legislation-trend","category-private-company","category-private-property-rights","category-process-procedure","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","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=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}