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Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Thursday, September 28, 2006
 
Group plans rally to oppose seizure
Patriot-News, Harrisburg, PA - Sept. 28, 2006
Many of the same people who led the criticism of state legislators after the 2005 pay raise are expanding their focus to include eminent domain...

Bethlehem aims for additional parking in city
Morning Call, Allentown, PA - Sept. 28, 2006
...Earlier this year, the authority threatened lot owners BethWorks Now with taking the property by eminent domain. Ultimately, the two sides reached a short-term agreement...

Comisky reflects at final board meeting
Main Line Times, Ardmore, PA - Sept. 28, 2006
...As president, Comisky was often the public defender of the township's adopted "Plan B" for Ardmore, as it became a poster child in a national revolt against the potential use of local government eminent domain powers for economic development....


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Wednesday, September 27, 2006
 
Quarry zoning changes approved
The York Daily Record, PA - Sept. 27, 2006
...They said the move would endanger their property values and would not guarantee their properties would be not used for future expansion. Township supervisors said the residents' homes could not be taken by eminent domain...

House won't open courts in land cases
Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader, PA (Associated Press) - Sept. 26, 2006
WASHINGTON - The House on Tuesday rejected a bill giving people faster access to federal courts when fighting state or local governments that have seized their property...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Tuesday, September 26, 2006
 
(Greensburg) Planning commission gets sneak peak of arts center
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - Sept. 26, 2006
...Officials said the hope is to close soon on the pizza shop/salon property, which is expected to be taken through eminent domain power by the authority...

PennDOT aims to ease Route 24 traffic
The York Dispatch, York, PA - Sept. 25, 2006
...Because he blames much of the traffic on development, Miller is upset that the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation might need, and potentially take by eminent domain, some of his property to widen Route 24 ...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, September 25, 2006
 
Land for new arena acquired
The Valley Independent, Monessen, PA - Sept. 23, 2006
...It filed paperwork to take by eminent domain one holdout property, owned by the Laborers' Combined Funds of Western Pennsylvania. But the union group has signed a letter of intent to sell...

Program may allow flood-prone residents options
Ridgway Record, Ridgway, PA - Sept. 22, 2006
...It was notes properties would not be acquired through eminent domain as this is a relief plan and not an effort to acquire land for a specified project...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Friday, September 22, 2006
 
A five-year timetable for Triangle project
York Dispatch, PA - Sept. 21, 2006
...Most of the properties are already in the authority's possession, but eminent domain proceedings or negotiations are still under way for several...


Dispute brews over plans for parking lot
York Dispatch, PA - Sept. 21, 2006
...The redevelopment authority has allowed time for discussions to resolve the conflict and has not yet moved to seize the lot by eminent domain...

Another merger?
Westside Weekly, West Reading, PA - Sept. 21, 2006
...the board voted 4-0 to purchase a 17-acre property on Vinemont Road under the Federal Eminent Domain provision invoked last May for the "fair market value" of $415,500...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Thursday, September 21, 2006
 
City tries new approach for lot
York Daily Record, York, PA - Sept. 21, 2006
...city officials pulled a request Wednesday to have the city's redevelopment authority authorize eminent domain proceeding for the 70-space lot at North Pershing and West Gay avenues...

Healing old wounds with a whole new 'artitude'
Main Line Times, Ardmore, PA - Sept. 21, 2006
...business owners had been at odds over the eminent domain issue that would have taken several vital properties along Lancaster Avenue for the creation of a mixed used facility with parking, retail and apartments...

City to kick-start Sunnyside
Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster, PA - Sept. 21, 2006
...The commissioners proposed moving county offices to the peninsula later that year, but they dropped that plan after acquiring by eminent domain the former Armstrong building at 150 N. Queen St...


Auction of Penn View Motel items
WFMZ-TV, Allentown, PA - Sept. 20, 2006
...The authority took the property through eminent domain earlier this year and plans to demolish it. It paid about 400-thousand dollars to relocate the motel's 20 permanent residents...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Wednesday, September 20, 2006
 
(VA Congressman) Wolf mounts opposition to power-line plan
The Loundoun Times-Mirror, Leesburg, VA - Sept. 20, 2006
...The line from Winchester to Aldie is part of a 240-mile transmission corridor from southeast Pennsylvania to Mt. Storm in West Virginia to Winchester and thence to Aldie...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Tuesday, September 19, 2006
 
Council holds Urban Village kick off meeting
The Daily Collegian, State College, PA - Sept. 19, 2006
...Council member Don Hahn also said he hopes the phrase "eminent domain" does not get thrown around in the revitalization process...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, September 18, 2006
 
News in brief from central Pennsylvania
Patriot-News, Harrisburg, PA (Associated Press) - Sept. 18, 2006
YORK, Pa. (AP) -- The owner of a downtown parking lot is balking at a city plan to seize the property as part of a $50 million redevelopment project...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Thursday, September 14, 2006
 
Ardmore spending shows $25 million drop
Main Line Times, Ardmore, PA - Sept. 14, 2006
...A different board of commissioners, with five new members, passed a resolution in March to take eminent domain, the threat of which had caused a backlash, off the table...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Wednesday, September 13, 2006
 
Construction management firm named for Matthew Drive extension
The Herald Standard, Uniontown, PA - Sept. 13, 2006
...the only representative from Pennsylvania on NAHRO's Community Revitalization and Development Committee, will moderate a session on eminent domain...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Tuesday, September 12, 2006
 
Spring Twp. has urge to merge again
Reading Eagle, Reading, PA - Sept. 12, 2006
...The supervisors also voted 4-0 to: Pay $415,500 for a 17-acre property on Vinemont Road. The former horse farm was taken by eminent domain in May...

Lauxmont becomes fair game
The York Daily Record, York, PA - Sept. 12, 2006
...Chronister, a real estate developer who is opposed to the park project, said his decision wasn't just based on eminent domain, but also a bad plan...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, September 11, 2006
 
Suit filed to stop seizure
The York Dispatch, York, PA - Sept. 11, 2006
...property owner Emmett Mann has filed a suit in federal court, arguing that York City officials violated his civil rights by taking his property ...


Next stop on rail-trail: courtroom
Lancaster Sunday News, Lancaster, PA - Sept. 9, 2006
...Commonwealth Court will hear oral arguments in the county's appeal of a lower-court decision last year that scuttled plans to take the line by eminent domain...

Cambria Authority facing bankruptcy
Altoona Mirror, Altoona, PA - Sept. 8, 2006
...Authority solicitor Michelle Tokarsky is optimistic that bankruptcy can be avoided. The issue stems from a 2002 eminent domain takeover...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Friday, September 08, 2006
 
Property owner sues again
The York Daily Record, PA - Sept. 8, 2006
...filed a federal civil rights lawsuit claiming city officials employed unlawful means to seize his property through eminent domain....


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Thursday, September 07, 2006
 
Fate of 1870s Amity tollhouse is uncertain
Reading Eagle, Reading, PA - Sept. 7, 2006
...Amity Township owns the Tollgate Road property, having taken the tollhouse and .05-acre site by eminent domain from Mike D. Rhodes, who bought the property last year...

Compromise may be in the works for GVSD eminent domain lawsuit
The Phoenix, Phoenixville, PA - Sept. 7, 2006
...to allow a neighbor of the Great Valley High School and middle school to keep their home which has been the object of an eminent domain lawsuit by the school district...

Philadelphia urban renewal chief resigns
Philadelphia Inquirer - Sept. 7, 2006
...said that in handling controversial eminent-domain issues, Wetzel "always made sure he did it in a way where people at the end of the day had an opportunity to voice their concerns."


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Wednesday, September 06, 2006
 
Despite one resident's opposition, township adopts open space plan
The Mercury, Pottstown, PA - Sept. 6, 2006
...Taylor also dismissed as "a total red herring," a suggestion by Sloss that "after all the space is gone" the township would begin to take properties by eminent domain...

Borough buys former car dealership for office
The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, PA - Sept. 6, 2006
...The Borough Council had announced in July that it wanted to buy the property at Emaus and Race streets and would resort to obtaining it through eminent domain if negotiations failed...

Opinion - Timothy Sandefur: Don't let property rights get trampled in Maryland
Baltimore Sun, MD - Sept. 6, 2006
...Although about half of the states allow such schemes, seven others, including Pennsylvania, have prohibited them...

Black Bottom Blues
Philadelphia Weekly - Sept. 6, 2006
...They had the use of eminent domain to hang over the homeowners' heads, so they could drive the prices down...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Tuesday, September 05, 2006
 
CCA project cost lower than expected
The Clarion News, Clarion, PA - Sept. 5, 2006
...The authority began condemnation proceedings last fall to force the sale of the ROWs through eminent domain, the right of government entities to force the sale of properties to be used for public purposes...

SEA acquires Uptown property for arena
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA - Sept. 3, 2006
...it did not have a final deal by the end of the day with the Laborers District Council of Western Pennsylvania, prompting a court filing to take the union's land by eminent domain...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Friday, September 01, 2006
 
Sports agency buying Uptown properties to clear way for new arena
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA - Sept. 1, 2006
...the board authorized Ms. Conturo to take the property through eminent domain, if needed. Ms. Conturo said, however, she expects to be able to reach an amicable agreement...

Hockey plan moves forward
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - Sept. 1, 2006
...$10,852,500 for eight parcels between Fifth and Centre avenues near Washington Place. The members also agreed to take the three remaining properties by eminent domain if necessary...

Buona Pizza looks for way to stay in neighborhood
Scranton Times-Tribune, PA - Sept. 1, 2006
...Eminent domain procedures would only be necessary if a business in the project area declines to upgrade its building and comply with the design of the planned redevelopment, Mr. Doherty said...

Attorney seeks class action suit for original Two Mile landowners
The Derrick, Oil City, PA - Aug. 31, 2006
...White asked Burgert whether the land was taken from him by eminent domain or given through an agreement. "They gave me a verbal ultimatum," Burgert said...

Residents question Great Valley decision
Main Line Life, Wayne, PA - Aug. 31, 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...


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