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Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Tuesday, October 31, 2006
 
News in brief from Central Pennsylvania
Patriot-News, Harrisburg, PA (Associated Press) - Oct. 31, 2006
...Lancaster County cannot take the Enola Low-Grade rail line by eminent domain to build a rail-trail, according to a Commonwealth Court ruling...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, October 30, 2006
 
Pa. court upholds local rail-trail ruling
Lancaster New Era, PA - Oct. 30, 2006
Lancaster County cannot seize the Enola Low-Grade line by eminent domain, according to a Commonwealth Court ruling handed down this morning...

Urban Warrior: God's people need to park
Philadelphia Daily News, PA - Oct. 30, 2006
...The Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority killed the church's plans to buy land in 2004 and used eminent domain to seize part of its parking lot to build the new Sharswood Townhouses...

Open space tax increase could mean long-term savings
The Mercury, Pottstown, PA - Oct. 30, 2006
...The commissioners have said at several public hearings that no open space will be obtained through eminent domain, but will instead be purchased only from "willing sellers." Sloss said if township officials are serious about keeping that pledge, they should incorporate it into an ordinance...

Claiming he was misled, Foxmoor theater operator sues mall, owner
Pocono Record, Stroudsburg, PA - Oct. 29, 2006
...Asked if the township would consider Foxmoor Village a blight and take over by eminent domain, Kulick said, "I would be very hesitant to do that...

Deficit by the numbers
Lancaster Sunday News, PA - Oct. 28, 2006
...The rail-trail project was expecting $2 million in grants this year, but with a lawsuit filed by townships along the low-grade line over the county’s seizure of the land by eminent domain still in appeals, no work has been done on the trail and no revenue has come in...

Ruins of old Bondsville Mill may be incorporated into park
Daily Local News, Exton, PA - Oct. 27, 2006
...The township acquired the 24.5-acre site for use as a park through eminent domain proceedings...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Friday, October 27, 2006
 
Johnstown council forms review committee
Daily American, Somerset, PA - Oct. 26, 2006
...The committee will determine if a property is blighted and then request the redevelopment authority to take over the property by eminent domain, said city Manager Curt Davis at Wednesday night's council meeting...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Wednesday, October 25, 2006
 
Riverfront park proponents forsee economic gains
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA - Oct. 25, 2006
...Both councilmen said eminent domain is an option in all property acquisitions but one they hope to use only as a last resort...

National preservation confab focuses on sustainable design
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA - Oct. 25, 2006
...The conference, which runs through Nov. 5, also will take on a host of challenging issues and opportunities facing communities, such as school reuse, property rights, eminent domain...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Tuesday, October 24, 2006
 
Agency to target derelict buildings
Reading Eagle, PA - Oct. 24, 2006
...If the board determines a building is blighted, the redevelopment authority could take the property by eminent domain or force the owner to repair it or donate it to the city...

Editorial: School may spark more development
Reading Eagle, PA - Oct. 24, 2006
...Just last year the township headed off a proposed 523-home housing development slated for the grounds of the Reading Country Club by taking that land through eminent domain ...

York City explores parking options for Northwest Triangle
York Dispatch, PA - Oct. 23, 2006
...The agreement does not preclude the use of eminent domain but demonstrates the intention to avoid it, said redevelopment authority coordinator Matt Jackson...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, October 23, 2006
 
City sees snags in acquiring property
York Dispatch, PA - Oct. 23, 2006
...The objections argue that the seizure is illegal because state eminent domain law, which changed Sept. 1, does not allow the seizure of property because of socially or economically undesirable land use...

Ridge faces threats
Daily Item, Sunbury, PA - Oct. 21, 2006
...No one is talking about exercising eminent domain or creating a new state or federal park. Instead, the focus is on working with local landowners to keep tracts from being sold for development...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Friday, October 20, 2006
 
City to fix sewers that back up
The Morning Call, Allentown, PA - Oct. 20, 2006
...However, this week, under the threat that City Council was willing to claim eminent domain on the properties, the remaining holdouts of the eight agreed to sell easements to the city...

Taking a stand for the rights of property owners
Patriot-News, Harrisburg, PA - Oct. 20, 2006
A citizens' group hopes public pressure can restrain the use of eminent domain in Pennsylvania in the same way that a public outcry helped reverse the July 2005 legislative pay raise...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Thursday, October 19, 2006
 
Northwest Triangle starting to take shape
York Daily Record, PA - Oct. 19, 2006
...the York City Redevelopment Authority Wednesday approved spending $1.481 million to acquire five key properties needed as part of the largest redevelopment project in the city's history...

Commissioner: 'Violence is not the American Way'
York Daily Record, PA - Oct. 18, 2006
...Tina Robertson of Citizens Against Eminent Domain Abuse said the finger has been unfairly pointed at her organization, which opposes the Highpoint and Lauxmont Farms parks projects...

Experts split on Highpoint outcome
York Dispatch, PA - Oct. 18, 2006
Professors at two Pennsylvania law schools say jurors typically sympathize with property owners in eminent domain cases...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Wednesday, October 18, 2006
 
Board: Alecxih sold them on cost
York Daily Record, PA - Oct. 18, 2006
...The board said it was persuaded by Alecxih's "insightful testimony," in which he stated that the property was worth $16,975,000...

Editorial: A dose of reality for park plan
York Dispatch, PA - Oct. 18, 2006
...That Mitrick, Kilgore and Lancaster-York Heritage Region president Mark Platts have overreached themselves, both in the use of eminent domain, and in pursuit of their collective vision for a riverside park, is clear...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Tuesday, October 17, 2006
 
Group plans Cramer rally
Patriot-News, Harrisburg, PA - Oct. 17, 2006
A citizens' group will hold a rally Thursday at Cramer Airport Parking to protest plans by Harrisburg International Airport to take the Cramer property by eminent domain...

Panel: Highpoint worth $10.5 million
York Dispatch, PA - Oct. 17, 2006
...the panel found the county should pay Peter Alecxih Jr. $10.5 million for Highpoint. The figure is more than five times what the county said the property is worth...

Highpoint price: $10.5M
York Daily Record, PA - Oct. 17, 2006
...The county's appraisals valued the land at $2 million. Alecxih's appraisals put its worth at $17 million...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, October 16, 2006
 
New laws added to state's books
The Herald Standard, Uniontown, PA - Oct. 16, 2006
...The GOP controlled Legislature was unsuccessful in delivering its most pressing goals: property tax reform, a cap on state budget spending, and private property protections through changes to eminent domain law...

Vandals' attack ripped
York Dispatch, PA - Oct. 16, 2006
...Highpoint, which the county seized by eminent domain, is part of the county's larger heritage park project...

Police: Brake lines disconnected at Highpoint
York Dispatch, PA - Oct. 13, 2006
...Police believe someone who opposes the use of eminent domain to create a park in Lower Windsor Township disconnected the brake lines overnight on two pieces of large earth-moving equipment...

Police: Brakes sabotaged
York Daily Record, PA - Oct. 13, 2006
..."It's one thing not to like eminent domain. It's another to take the law into your own hands."...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Friday, October 13, 2006
 
Planners look at Adams greenways
Evening Sun, Hanover, PA - Oct. 13, 2006
...Adams County residents voiced concerns at the meeting regarding the plans, including a question of whether eminent domain would come into play as part of the process...

Legal battle over GVSD acquiring home continues
The Suburban Advisor, Exton, PA - Oct. 12, 2006
...Then he asked for a showing of hands of those who were opposed to the eminent-domain proceeding. Most of the people in the audience raised their hands and there was a round of applause...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Thursday, October 12, 2006
 
150-foot buffers approved
Pocono Record, Stroudsburg, PA - Oct. 12, 2006
...They are designed to control runoff and pollution of waterways. Those against the plan said the buffers are effectively a "taking" of property along the lines of eminent domain...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Wednesday, October 11, 2006
 
Citizens push to limit new housing
York Dispatch, York, PA - Oct. 11, 2006
...the county planning commission recommended the township acquire a portion of the development site through eminent domain for the future interchange project if an agreement can't be reached to keep a possible right of way undeveloped...

Summit Hill votes to seize lot for construction project
The Morning Call, Allentown, PA - Oct. 11, 2006
...The ordinance empowers the borough to try to negotiate a selling price with John but authorizes its solicitor to condemn the property and take it by eminent domain if needed...

Residents learn to deal with bridge closings
Evening Sun, Hanover, PA - Oct. 11, 2006
...The county has also approved a resolution to take 465 square feet of land through eminent domain, to help stem erosion at the bridge. Some residents of Red Rock Road said the bridge will not be sorely missed...

Opinion - Mark Alan Hughes: Private planning not a public good
Philadelphia Daily News, PA - Oct. 11, 2006
...It is the same with, for example, eminent domain. It is important that planners "wear the badge" of government when exercising such power...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, October 09, 2006
 
Civic partnership gets grant for rail-to-trail
Hazleton Standard Speaker, PA - Oct. 9, 2006
..."They thought eminent domain was being used," Nasrani said. "We told them we needed the cooperation of the property owners. If the property owners didn't want us to come in, we wouldn't."...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Friday, October 06, 2006
 
Summit Hill may acquire, raze home
The Morning Call, Allentown, PA - Oct. 6, 2006
Summit Hill Borough Council apparently has decided on the location for a new municipal building, and is willing to take a property by eminent domain if necessary....


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Thursday, October 05, 2006
 
Reed new LM board president
Main Line Times, Ardmore, PA - Oct. 5, 2006
...Rosenzweig worked closely with Reed earlier this year to craft a resolution removing the threat of eminent domain as a part of Ardmore redevelopment...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Tuesday, October 03, 2006
 
County eminent-domain case moves to Phila.
Lancaster New Era, PA - Oct. 3, 2006
Former owner seeking millions in compensation for county's seizure of ex-Armstrong building on North Queen Street...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, October 02, 2006
 
Costly renewal
The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, PA - Oct. 2, 2006
...Nine landowners have agreed to sell their Front Street properties, but the three who have balked are forcing the borough to try to take their land by eminent domain, Musser said...

Pa. Web exclusives
York Dispatch, York, PA (Associated Press) - Oct. 2, 2006
...Pennsylvania's General Assembly barred the use of eminent domain to convey unblighted property to a commercial developer. But Steelton filed its eminent domain actions in court on Aug. 31, a day before the new law took effect...

Survey: Seeing land helps
York Dispatch, York, PA - Oct. 2, 2006
...Aside from Highpoint, the county is also planning to use, and potentially take by eminent domain, much of the Kohr family's Lauxmont Farms...

County to take land near Red Rock bridge
Evening Sun, Hanover, PA - Oct. 1, 2006
...While the owner agreed to sell the land to the county, state law requires the transaction to occur through eminent domain...

Pa. lawmakers disagree on call for state constitutional convention
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA - Sept. 30, 2006
...They wanted to address education funding, consolidation of local governments, eminent domain, the appointment of judges and more...


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