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Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, March 31, 2008
 
Authority approves appraisal pact
Erie Times-News, PA - Mar. 29, 2008
...Two weeks ago, the Port Authority invoked a provision of the state's eminent-domain code to gain access to the property and plant for the evaluation. That process is still ongoing...

Editorial: Meeting switch raises questions
Erie Times-News, PA - Mar. 29, 2008
...Is GAF listening? The Erie-Western Pennsylvania Port Authority's decision to consider starting the process of eminent domain to gain access to the GAF Materials Corp. bayfront property might be working...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Friday, March 28, 2008
 
Brownsville proposal approved by county
The Herald Standard, Uniontown, PA - Mar. 28, 2008
...Zimmerlink said she would vote in favor of the plan if fair market value and not eminent domain were used for acquisition. Zapotosky said every avenue would be exhausted, including eminent domain, but added that fair market value must be offered if that route is taken...

Fayette goes forward with Brownsville plan
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - Mar. 28, 2008
...Commissioner Angela Zimmerlink voted to approve the plan, but said she will not support acquisition of the properties through eminent domain...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Thursday, March 27, 2008
 
NW Triangle gets $1 million boost
York Daily Record, PA - Mar. 26, 2008
...The authority has been trying to acquire Ohio Blenders land through eminent domain, and Jackson said the litigation continues...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Wednesday, March 26, 2008
 
Eminent domain to enter GAF property might not be needed
Erie Times-News, PA - Mar. 26, 2008
...The company might be willing to grant access without it, Mayor Joe Sinnott said...

Fayette may adopt 3 percent hotel tax
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - Mar. 26, 2008
...The $2.2 million Brownsville redevelopment plan calls for the county redevelopment authority to acquire 30 mostly vacant downtown properties, then prepare them to be marketed to developers. Ernest Liggett of Monroeville owns 22 of the properties and does not want them to be acquired through eminent domain...

Committee to map Moul Field future
Evening Sun, Hanover, PA - Mar. 25, 2008
...Plans by the school district to build a new school at the field kicked off a back-and-forth legal battle in which the borough filed paperwork to seize the field and the Myers Memorial Playground on Filbert Street by eminent domain. In response, the school district filed to take the properties back...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Tuesday, March 25, 2008
 
PPL moves third nuke unit plan forward
Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, PA - Mar. 25, 2008
...“Our process would be to try and reach a fair and equitable (price) with the property owner. Obviously, if that didn’t happen … eminent domain ... could be a last resort, but that’s not where we would like to be,” Scopelliti said.

High-voltage power line debated
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA - Mar. 25, 2008
...During examination by Ms. Dusman, Mr. Herling said PJM did not consider environmental impacts or issues involving eminent domain when considering the power line, and the group's decision was driven by electric reliability needs...

Editorial: Port right to force issue on GAF land
Erie Times-News, PA - Mar. 25, 2008
...By threatening to use the state's eminent domain law, the Port Authority is playing hardball to gain access to the property so the Robert Glowacki Agency can conduct an appraisal. But it was left little choice...

City claims eminent domain
The Herald, Sharon, PA - Mar. 25, 2008
A dilapidated house and adjacent garage near Farrell’s new Little League field will soon be razed after city council Monday unanimously agreed to condemn the property by eminent domain...

This morning
The Times-Tribune, Scranton, PA - Mar. 24, 2008
DUNMORE — Borough Council on Monday approved taking four residential properties through eminent domain in order to turn them around for auction and redevelopment...

Talks to continue for the sale of Moon property
Beaver CountyTimes, Beaver, PA - Mar. 24, 2008
...But on March 10, a week after Cyrilla rejected the board’s $55,000 offer, the board voted 6-2 to start the eminent-domain process...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, March 24, 2008
 
House bought out after 4 years
The York Daily Record, PA - Mar. 24, 2008
...Township commissioners said they are glad an agreement was reached without using eminent domain. But Dana Heston said she's far from happy with the agreement...

Not all aboard
Sunday News, Lancaster, PA - Mar. 23, 2008
...But the memorandum doesn't address a rail trail -- something that's been bitterly contested since at least 1991 and that led to county commissioners' failed effort in 2004 to seize the line by eminent domain...

CFJMA approves use of eminent domain
The Sentinel, Carlisle, PA - Mar. 21, 2008
Eminent domain proceedings have been authorized in an effort by Cumberland-Franklin Joint Municipal Authority directors to gain access to a sewer line that runs through Shippensburg Mobile Estates...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Friday, March 21, 2008
 
Casey energizing opposition to transmission line plan
Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, PA - Mar. 21, 2008
...The plan approved last year designates areas, including 50 of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties, in which companies seeking to build transmission lines could appeal to federal regulators to use eminent domain if approval is denied at the state level...

Brownsville speculator blocked by judge
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - Mar. 21, 2008
...In addition, he wanted the county prohibited from holding any meetings for the purpose of acquiring the properties through eminent domain...

Ardmore renewal goes to Carl Dranoff
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Mar. 21, 2008
...Not long ago, any talk of delaying the controversial project - which at one point included the threat of property seizures through eminent domain - would have triggered a standing ovation. Instead, Gould's protest was met with silence from the audience and the board...

Supporters of new school present case
The Pocono Record, Stroudsburg, PA - Mar. 21, 2008
...Cardelle was also queasy about having to resort to eminent domain to buy some of the remaining 17 properties. "A number of them are very unwilling sellers," she said...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Thursday, March 20, 2008
 
Jury: Airport authority owes for land
The Morning Call, Allentown, PA - Mar. 20, 2008
...In 1998, a court agreed with WBF that the airport's expansion plans amounted to seizing WBF's land through eminent domain. The court ordered the airport authority to pay WBF for the whole parcel...

Dranoff selected for Ardmore project
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Mar. 20, 2008
...less than five years ago, when commissioners raised the possibility of using eminent domain to acquire properties along Lancaster Avenue for demolition. That triggered street protests, litigation and an effort to drive some commissioners from office...

BWX challenging Apollo's bid to seize site
Valley News Dispatch, Tarentum, PA - Mar. 20, 2008
...in its court filing, BWXT stated that the eminent domain action was invalid. It says the borough acted in bad faith and abused its discretion by deciding to use the property for common space...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Wednesday, March 19, 2008
 
Deadline for Ardmore's makeover
The Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Mar. 19, 2008
...Rufo feared losing Brownies four years ago, when the Lower Merion commissioners threatened to acquire his property and others through eminent domain, to make way for a canyon of midrise stores and office buildings...

Trafford adding to municipal complex
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - Mar. 19, 2008
...Trafford council voted Tuesday night to exercise eminent domain to obtain a 2,200 square foot property containing a century-old tavern...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Tuesday, March 18, 2008
 
Bracing for blight (audio & video)
Erie Times-News, PA - Mar. 18, 2008
...Elliott said the authority attempts to take the worst of the blighted properties by eminent domain. But even then, he said, state laws favor landowners -- even absentee landowners...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, March 17, 2008
 
Power Point: an industry on defense: The road to electric deregulation is growing bumpy
RedOrbit.com, TX (Allentown Morning Call) -- Mar. 17, 2008
...It's work that is sure to set off a political firestorm. The 150-foot steel towers that support high-tension power lines are widely regarded as eyesores, and building them often requires condemnation of private property through eminent domain...

Squeeze is on county
Sunday News, Lancaster, PA - Mar. 16, 2008
...Even though a court panel ruled recently that the county must pay the building's former owner another $7.8 million, the commissioners are pressing ahead with renovations begun on the watch of their predecessors, who seized the building by eminent domain in 2004...

Lawsuit aims to correct errors in DOE's transmission corridor designations
News Blaze, Folsom, CA - Mar. 15, 2008
..The Mid-Atlantic NIETC includes hundreds of square miles in eastern Ohio and all or substantial portions of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., impacting so many natural and historic wonders that this so-called "corridor" area was named by the National Trust for Historic Preservation as one of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places...

Port eyes GAF land
Erie Times-News, Mar. 15, 2008
...The Erie-Western Pennsylvania Port Authority on Friday voted to invoke a provision of the state's eminent domain code to gain access to the property to see if there is value to acquiring the 12.5-acre parcel...

Port authority goes after GAF
Erie Times-News, PA - Mar. 14, 2008
...The Erie-Western Pennsylvania Port Authority today agreed to use the state’s eminent domain code to gain access to the vacant GAF Materials Corp. plant property to do an appraisal and testing...

Steelton's business park in sight
Central Penn Business Journal, Harrisburg, PA - Mar. 14, 2008
...So far, officials have worked out six of the nine property-sales agreements needed to move the project forward. Officials have entered eminent-domain proceedings to acquire the other three because the property owners and the SEDC have yet to reach sales-price agreements, Gehrlein said...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Thursday, March 13, 2008
 
Moon starts eminent-domain battle for school storage building
Beaver County Times, Beaver, PA - Mar. 12, 2008
...Just a week later, though, the Moon Area School Board decided to go after the land through eminent domain proceedings for construction of a maintenance and storage building...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
 
Ruling displeases building's ex-owner
Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster, PA - Mar. 12, 2008
...Short of that, Trocki said he's considering appealing a ruling handed down Monday that awarded him $7.8 million on top of the $8.3 million he was paid when the county took the building by eminent domain in 2004...

Vrabel resigns after just 1 month as Elm Street manager
The Herald Standard, Uniontown, PA - Mar. 12, 2008
...He said he is close to an agreement on another property, but the last one probably would have to be acquired through eminent domain. Twenty other lots already have been purchased and cleared using a $500,000 state grant...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Tuesday, March 11, 2008
 
Building to cost county $7.8M
Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster, PA - Mar. 11, 2008
...When the former county commissioners decided to take the building at 150 N. Queen St. by eminent domain, they offered Trocki the average of three assessments of its value, which was $8.3 million...

Construction plan
WHP-TV, Harrisburg, PA - Mar. 11, 2008
...The project took part of the parking lot where he owns a business. “What are you going to do? It's not something you can deal with. It's the state. It is eminent domain.” ...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, March 10, 2008
 
Agency cripples plans for sewage plant upgrade in Poconos
The Pocono Record, Stroudsburg, PA - Mar. 10, 2008
...He said the township could even explore forced acquisition of park property through eminent domain -- just as the federal government took the park service land from unwilling private owners decades ago...

Senate to weigh DOE's power to overrule states
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA - Mar. 9, 2008
...The Mid-Atlantic designation in the Northeast, which encompasses eight states, the District of Columbia, and 50 of Pennsylvania's 67 counties, means the federal government will have the right to overrule state decisions involving the location of electric transmission lines and to take private property through eminent domain for such projects...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Friday, March 07, 2008
 
Feds push ahead with new power-line plan
Erie Times-News, PA (Associated Press) - Mar. 7, 2008
...If state authorities do not approve any construction after a year, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, may intervene and approve a grid project if the new line is deemed necessary to satisfy national power needs. Such approvals could, in theory, include the use of eminent domain law to compel private owners to sell their property...

Gordon easement would allow park access
The Republican & Herald, Pottsville, PA - Mar. 7, 2008
...Semanchik said an appeal can be filed by the Hubers to block the eminent domain process...

Large crowd attends open space forum
Fulton County News, McConnellsburg, PA - Mar. 6, 2008
...indicated the program offers three benefits revolving around future eligibility for ag easements; protection from eminent domain; and maintaining current farming practices...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Thursday, March 06, 2008
 
Fewer students may mean new schools in McKeesport Area
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA - Mar. 6, 2008
..."That area is an ideal site with Helen Richey Field next door and Renzie Park just across Eden Park Boulevard. Property acquisition might be a problem. But most of it is low-density residential. We might be forced to consider eminent domain," he said...

Be realistic, Ardmore planners urged
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Mar. 6, 2008
...A township plan that included the potential demolition of properties through eminent domain drew such heat three years go that the commissioners who backed it were voted out of office...

Stroudsburg board debates high school project
Pocono Record, Stroudsburg, PA - Mar. 6, 2008
..."I am captivated by a new building because it avoids eminent domain, and I'm struck by how much it will facilitate curriculum," ...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Wednesday, March 05, 2008
 
Lipkin withdraws as downtown Ardmore developer
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Mar. 5, 2008
...Redevelopment in Ardmore has a volatile history. Three years ago, a township plan - including the potential demolition of properties through eminent domain - drew such heat that the commissioners who had backed it were voted out of office...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, March 03, 2008
 
Property offers fuel owners' anger
The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, PA - Mar. 3, 2008
...a Harrisburg attorney, has been retained by several of the property owners, said, "It's frustrating when your house is under a cloud of eminent domain," he said. "People want to be treated fairly."...

Make way for the 202 parkway
The Intelligencer, Doylestown, PA - Mar. 2, 2008
...Today, the transportation agency is again negotiating with property owners, appraising land and using its power of eminent domain to buy what's left of the right of way...

Moul Field fight could be over soon
Evening Sun, Hanover, PA - Mar. 1, 2008
...The question of how Moul Field should be used has been a point of contention for more than a year. Plans by the school district to build a new school at the field kicked off a back-and-forth legal battle in which the borough filed paperwork to seize the field and the Myers Memorial Playground on Filbert Street by eminent domain...


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