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Monday, December 31, 2007
New Kensington church closes Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - Dec. 31, 2007 ...The Redevelopment Authority of New Kensington acquired the building under eminent domain and intends to have it razed... Pa. Supreme Court OKs seizure of property for private school WHP-TV, Harrisburg, PA (Associated Press) - Dec. 30, 2007 ...The decision pitted the concept of eminent domain against the separation of church and state... 2007 in review: HM. Elections Evening Sun, Hanover, PA - Dec. 30, 2007 ...Meanwhile, eminent domain was a common word in York County throughout 2007 and it is what caused some of the local politicians who run county and municipal governments to lose their spot on the board... 2007 in review: 1. School, borough fight for field Evening Sun, Hanover, PA - Dec. 30, 2007 ...Hanover Borough Council filed paperwork to seize the field on Moul Avenue and the Myers Memorial Playground on Filbert Street by eminent domain, only to have the school district file to take the properties back... Pa. court upholds church-state case The Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Dec. 29, 2007 In Pennsylvania, it is now legal in some cases to condemn blighted private property and turn it over to a religious organization, the state Supreme Court ruled this week. The case, which blended the hot-button issues of eminent domain and separation of church and state, revolved around a North Philadelphia neighborhood that the city certified as blighted 36 years ago... Year of death and discontent Sunday News, Lancaster, PA - Dec. 29, 2007 ...A third lawsuit, by Dr. Ira Trocki, whose building at 150 N. Queen St. was seized via eminent domain for county offices, is pending in federal court. Meanwhile, renovation of the building was running late and over budget... New Kensington church to be razed for revitalization project Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - Dec. 29, 2007 ...On Sunday, members of the First Church of God will celebrate their last service at 1316 Fourth Ave. at 3 p.m. The building was acquired under eminent domain by the Redevelopment Authority of New Kensington and is scheduled to be razed... Pennsylvania eminent domain news
Friday, December 28, 2007
Limits place on future school building Evening Sun, Hanover, PA - Dec. 27, 2007 ...Plans by the Hanover Public School District to build a new school at Moul Field spawned a back-and-forth legal battle in early 2007 in which Hanover Borough Council filed eminent domain papers to seize the field on Moul Avenue... Pennsylvania eminent domain news
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Purchase of reputable Camp Olympic will resolve Lower Macungie controversy The Morning Call, Allentown, PA - Dec. 27, 2007 ...The deal will provide more open space and recreation, including land for athletic fields. It also will save Leister Farm, 104 acres at Hilltop and Mertztown roads, from eminent domain... Lawsuit alleges countywide conspiracy Evening Sun, Hanover, PA - Dec. 26, 2007 The owners of Lauxmont Farms in Lower Windsor Township filed a lawsuit against York County Monday, claiming that the county commissioners' efforts to take their land by eminent domain for a park caused them financial problems... Pennsylvania eminent domain news
Monday, December 24, 2007
Clarion Area Authority prepares for operations if sale falls through The Clarion News, Clarion, PA - Dec. 24, 2007 ...The authority settled on the lower number, which includes the property owner’s legal fees. The settlement avoids an eminent domain proceeding in court, and therefore avoids additional legal fees... Lower Macungie lands a deal The Morning Call, Allentown, PA - Dec. 22, 2007 ...Lower Macungie's supervisors tried to get the conservancy to allow active recreational uses on the land, but the conservancy balked. So the supervisors began considering using their eminent domain powers to lift the easement... Apollow may seize B&W property Valley News Dispatch, Tarentum, PA - Dec. 22, 2007 ...According to council President John Ameno, the borough needs the 4.6-acre parcel for parking and green space situated, ideally, next to some light industry and a river trail. Council is expected to discuss the eminent domain issue during its next regular meeting... Pennsylvania eminent domain news
Friday, December 21, 2007
Farmland could be in the path of electric wires Lancaster Farming, PA - Dec. 21, 2007 ...most of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and New York; parts of Ohio and Virginia; and the entire states of Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey in a newly designated Mid-Atlantic National Corridor, which would give electric companies the right to use eminent domain to build new electric power lines and transmission facilities anywhere in those areas ... Voters to decide on Moul field? Evening Sun, Hanover, PA - Dec. 21, 2007 ...In August, the district and borough signed an agreement that withdrew plans by the district to build a new school on Moul Field to replace Washington Elementary. The agreement put a stay on eminent-domain proceedings ... Pennsylvania eminent domain news
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Monroeville mayor vetoes plan to create authority Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA - Dec. 20, 2007 ..."I was given an ordinance that created the Growth Alliance and the ordinance that created the redevelopment authority. In it, to my amazement, the [Growth Alliance] has the power to do everything except eminent domain," resident Marilyn Skolnick told council... State cuts looms for juvie funds The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, PA - Dec. 20, 2007 ...Commissioner Greg Skrepenak said Wednesday morning that county officials are considering these solutions: buying the facility from PA Child Care, renegotiating the lease, pulling out of the lease or purchasing the building through eminent domain... Allentown City Council to vote on blighted properties WFMZ-TV, Allentown, PA - Dec. 19, 2007 Tonight, City Council is to vote on whether six city properties meet the legal definition of blight and whether to take control of those properties through eminent domain... Pennsylvania eminent domain news
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
PennDOT's plans may mean luncheonette's end The Morning Call, Allentown, PA - Dec. 19, 2007 ...The state in October filed legal papers to take both properties by eminent domain. PennDOT holds title to both buildings, but still must complete the transaction and pay ''just compensation'' for both properties... Pennsylvania eminent domain news
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Old town tries new approach The Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Dec. 18, 2007 ...When Saha refused to sell, city leaders tried to take the farm by eminent domain. When the city lost in court, the project collapsed, leaving the town $8 million in the red... Pennsylvania eminent domain news
Monday, December 17, 2007
Fight for field far from over Evening Sun, Hanover, PA - Dec. 16, 2007 ...members of the Hanover Borough Council and Hanover Public School District continue to meet to discuss a possible resolution over Moul Field without having to proceed with an eminent domain court case that made headlines almost a year ago... Editorial: Antietam deal offers victory on two fronts Reading Eagle, Reading, PA - Dec. 15, 2007 ...In addition Berks County spent $27,183 on eminent domain processings to take the lake and the property, something it would not have had to do if Spencer, Sterner and company had not tried to subvert the charter... Pennsylvania eminent domain news
Friday, December 14, 2007
A chance to save a block of history on North Broad Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Dec. 14, 2007 ...The sell-back offer came as a big surprise, Bass explained, because the state had only just seized the two buildings, using eminent domain, to make way for the center's expansion... Editorial: Wyomissing board has few alternatives Reading Eagle, Reading, PA - Dec. 14, 2007 ...After all, what good is a sense of community if the community -- or even a part of it -- is taken away by eminent domain?... Pennsylvania eminent domain news
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Monroeville mayor vetoes council's development plan Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - Dec. 13, 2007 ...Much of the opposition comes from recent court decisions -- including the 2005 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Kelo vs. City of New London -- which held local economic agencies can use eminent domain to take properties from a private owner and give them to another private owner as part of an economic growth initiative... Pennsylvania eminent domain news
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
New intersection project on hold Buck County Courier Times, Levittown, PA - Dec. 12, 2007 ...The joint effort among PennDOT, Falls and Middletown began in the '90s with condemnation and eminent domain -- or forcible taking -- of a dozen properties along the heavily traveled intersection... Reading City Council clears way for Antietam Lake sale WFMZ-TV, Allentown, PA - Dec. 12, 2007 ...A couple of weeks later the County Commissioners voted to seize the property by eminent domain... Pennsylvania eminent domain news
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
$8M for annex is questioned The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, PA - Dec. 11, 2007 ...The selection of a former downtown bank building to house the annex has been controversial from the start because commissioners had initially proposed leasing it for $2.58 million over the next 10 years. Instead, Commissioner Greg Skrepenak and former commissioner Todd Vonderheid voted in May to buy the building for $605,000 through eminent domain... NYRI wants to know if N.Y. has authority to approve power line The Oneida Daily Dispatch, NY (Associated Press) - Dec. 11, 2007 ...The mid-Atlantic power corridor runs from Virginia and Washington, D.C. north to include most of Maryland, all of New Jersey and Delaware and large sections of New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Under a law passed by Congress in 2005 to help update the transmission grid and avoid blackouts, the federal government can approve new power transmission towers within the corridors if states and regional groups fail to build such lines... Pennsylvania eminent domain news
Monday, December 10, 2007
Strasburg still working to finalize bypass plans Lancaster New Era, PA - Dec. 10, 2007 ...The right-of-way issue involves a Strasburg Township tract of land owned by Verizon. The borough is using eminent domain to acquire the right of way for its appraised value of $133,000... Pennsylvania eminent domain news
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
DOE considers rehearing of powerline policy The Herald Standard, Uniontown, PA - Dec. 5, 2007 ..."That law authorizes the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to use its federal eminent domain power to locate and construct transmission lines, regardless of what our own Public Utility Commission finds and rules. For several months now, I have been quite vocal that this is an unprecedented usurping of state's rights and it's just plain wrong."... Pennsylvania eminent domain news
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Board gets 2nd appraisal of land The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, PA - Dec. 4, 2007 ...District officials said the selling price includes "special damages" allowed under Pennsylvania's Eminent Domain Code, such as moving and relocation expenses... |
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