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Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Tuesday, July 31, 2007
 
Angry commuters drive home point at meeting, get some help
Pocono Record, Stroudsburg, PA - July 31, 2007
...However, the suggestion to buy a parcel of wooded land adjacent to the current park and ride through eminent domain was met with opposition from residents of Croasdale Estates. "That’s my back yard," one person said...

Board, candidates clash over Moul Field
Evening Sun, Hanover, PA - July 31, 2007
...The deal would end months of legal battles that has seen the borough and district each file to take the property by eminent domain...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, July 30, 2007
 
Rec for Hanover's Moul Field?
Evening Sun, Hanover, PA - July 30, 2007
...The school district wanted to build a new school on the Doubleday property behind Moul Field to replace Washington, but the borough tried to seize Moul Field by eminent domain...

Foster Twp. files suit to have Buck Run property condemned
The Republican & Herald, Pottsville, PA - July 29, 2007
...Under the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the township will be required to pay BBZ Research Inc. fair market value for the property. However, according to the lawsuit, the township’s power of taxation is sufficient under the state Eminent Domain Code to raise any money necessary to make that payment.

South rises again
Sunday News, Lancaster, PA - July 29, 2007
...He contrasted the purchase of the site with the county's taking by eminent domain of the former Armstrong building at 150 N. Queen St for office space...

A celebration of faith and heritage in Easton
The Morning Call, Allentown, PA - July 29, 2007
...People tried to fight the city's urban renewal plans. They hired an attorney to battle the eminent domain actions but lost...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Thursday, July 26, 2007
 
Hanover might buy Moul Field
Evening Sun, Hanover, PA - July 26, 2007
...York County Judge Thomas Kelley ruled in March the borough had no right to use eminent domain to take the property from another public entity. But the ruling didn't resolve matters...

School district to end field fight
The York Daily Record, PA - July 26, 2007
...After months of legal battles and eminent-domain filings by both sides, an agreement between the Hanover Public School District and Hanover Borough is close and plans to build a new elementary school next to Moul Field are likely gone for good...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Tuesday, July 24, 2007
 
CAA sale still in process
The Clarion News, Clarion, PA - July 24, 2007
...Snyder said eminent domain proceedings to take ownership of sewer line rights of way are progressing. There are still nine properties whose owners have not agreed to sell the rights of way, and a meeting to view those properties was set for July 19, Snyder said...

Planned power line draws heat from locals
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA - July 24, 2007
...One of the issues that generated the most heat at the meeting was that of eminent domain. The NIETC designation, if finalized, would grant the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission so-called "backstop" authority to seize land needed for the construction of new power lines...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Friday, July 20, 2007
 
PPL seeks court-ordered land access
The Morning Call, Allentown, PA - July 20, 2007
...In its complaint, PPL says eminent domain law gives the utility "the right to enter upon any land or improvement in order to make studies, surveys, tests, soundings and appraisals.'"...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Thursday, July 19, 2007
 
Lawmakers want to slow power line process
York Dispatch, PA - July 19, 2007
...States have in the past had the final say on siting power lines and using eminent domain for the process. The transmission line corridor would allow the federal government to override state and local decisions...

Church land taken by twp.
The York Daily Record, PA - July 19, 2007
Calvary Assembly of God shouldn't take it personally that West Manheim Township has declared eminent domain on a piece of the church's property for a road project, township supervisors said...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Wednesday, July 18, 2007
 
Church land seized by township
Evening Sun, Hanover, PA - July 18, 2007
After getting phone calls from residents asking when a road construction project to extend Brunswick Drive will start, West Manheim Township got the process moving Tuesday by declaring eminent domain on a piece of property owned by a local church...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, July 16, 2007
 
Land owners against power line plan
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA - July 15, 2007
...He said power company officials tried unsuccessfully to intimidate his parents into signing over a right-of-way in 1976, with threats of taking the property by eminent domain...

Commissioner with many questions
Lancaster Sunday News, PA - July 15, 2007
...Take the problems at the Armstrong building. The structure at 150 North Queen St. was seized by the county via eminent domain and has been in the headlines lately as renovations resulted in major problems...

Gas plant project under fire
Evening Sun, Hanover, PA - July 13, 2007
...Many residents were concerned with the station's safety, while others were upset with the energy company's threat of eminent domain if deals were not reached with landowners...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Thursday, July 12, 2007
 
Flood project a win for residents
The Times-Tribune, Scranton, PA - July 12, 2007
...The project had been riddled with delays, including attempts to acquire needed properties and coordinating with the state, city solicitor Rob Farrell said. The final obstacle was resolved when an appeals panel ruled Scranton properly used eminent domain when it condemned two parcels for the project...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Wednesday, July 11, 2007
 
County water-sewer authority adopts eminent domain resolution
Williamsport Sun-Gazette, PA - July 10, 2007
...The Lycoming County Water and Sewer Authority Monday approved a resolution that will enable the authority to obtain the easements through eminent domain -- or condemnation -- proceedings...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, July 09, 2007
 
York commissioner's past votes on eminent domain questioned
Evening Sun, Hanover, PA - July 9, 2007
...Chronister said his vote against the park wasn't just about eminent domain. It was about a bad plan and how the park was going to be paid for...

Rundown buildings a danger to people
The Republican & Herald, Pottsville, PA - July 9, 2007
...And in Schuylkill County Court, Porter Township officials filed a declaration that they would take a blighted property at 440 Dietrich Ave., Orwin, using the power of eminent domain to try to make the area a better place to live...

Opinion - Bill Steigerwald: States restoring what court stole
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - July 8, 2007
...Miraculously, and out of character for a commonwealth that pioneered eminent domain abuse in the 1950s, our home legislature last year passed the "Property Rights Protection Act" with near unanimity...

Drawing battle lines over power
Times-Leader, Wilkes-Barre, PA - July 8, 2007
...In addition, a federal permit could allow the permit holder to exercise the right of eminent domain to acquire necessary property rights to build a transmission project...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Friday, July 06, 2007
 
Porter Twp. condemns Dietrich Ave. property
The Republican & Herald, Pottsville, PA - July 6, 2007
...Porter Township has condemned what it calls a blighted property in Orwin and said it does not owe any compensation to its owners...

Battle could delay breaker development
Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, PA - July 6, 2007
...Since the Luzerne County Commissioners in January decided to take control of the landmark through a court procedure called eminent domain, the county and the breaker’s landowner have been squabbling...

Souderton postpones Main Street parking project
Souderton Independent, PA - July 5, 2007
...Schlosser also reminded the rest of council that, in 2005, an engineer employed by the borough determined that the selective demolition of those buildings was not possible because of the extent of structural damage. That determination was a key to the borough's taking of the property from 129 to 135 North Main by eminent domain...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Thursday, July 05, 2007
 
$200,000 bid for condemned house
Patriot-News, Harrisburg, PA - July 5, 2007
...The authority condemned the two-story house as blighted and seized it through eminent domain on April 17. That came after repeated attempts to contact the owner, George N. Pauly Jr., of Berkeley, Calif., failed...

County still shuns eminent domain
The Republican & Herald, Pottsville, PA - July 4, 2007
...The commissioners said in June they want to stay out of a dispute between the developer of a proposed $300 million ethanol plant in Joliett and the owner of nearly 13,000 acres in Porter and Frailey townships, which adjoin the site of the proposed plant...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, July 02, 2007
 
Hanover firms net G-burg project
The York Daily Record, York, PA - July 1, 2007
...John Eline, a former councilman who headed the REDDI steering committee, said in 2003 the borough could use eminent domain for the project. But, in the end, nobody was forced out...

No lines through county - yet
The York Daily Record, York, PA - July 1, 2007
...Q: Can utilities use eminent domain to acquire land to build a transmission lines? A: Yes. But, if the DOE designated its corridor, taking land by eminent domain to build power lines would become easier...


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