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Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Thursday, January 31, 2008
 
County: $120,000 to 'stop the bleeding'
Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster, PA - Jan. 31, 2008
...The previous board of commissioners took the former Armstrong building at 150 N. Queen St. through eminent domain in 2004. Renovations began a year ago to prepare the building to be home to most of the county's non-court-related offices and departments...

Montgomery Township will widen road
North Penn Life, Fort Washington, PA - Jan. 31, 2008
...of the 17 properties impacting the project, three have yet to agree to the proposed adjustments on Horsham Road. On Monday, the board granted township staff approval to begin condemnation proceedings with three property owners if a settlement can't be reached...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Wednesday, January 30, 2008
 
County extending contract to oversee renovation
Lancaster New Era, PA - Jan. 30, 2008
...The property at 150 N. Queen St. is still the subject of an ongoing lawsuit from its former owner, Ira Trocki, who contends that the county undervalued the building before taking it by eminent domain.


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Tuesday, January 29, 2008
 
Farrell council won't seize lots near new ballfield - yet
The Herald, Sharon, PA - Jan. 29, 2008
...City council Monday gave Greene some time by not acting on an ordinance that would have taken lots at 827 Wallis Avenue and 807 Union Street by eminent domain...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, January 28, 2008
 
Mediator linked to commissioner's campaign
Evening Sun, Hanover, PA - Jan. 27, 2008
...then-commissioners Lori Mitrick and Doug Kilgore approved the use of eminent domain to take the land for a proposed heritage park project...

Officials have questions about Canonsburg library
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA - Jan. 27, 2008
...Although there is still one parcel that needs to be consolidated with six others for the site, that could be fixed by eminent domain and isn't holding up the groundbreaking, he said...

Mayor: No need for new borough building
Standard Speaker, Hazleton, PA - Jan. 27, 2008
...For the past year or so, there has been some quiet discussion about building a new Borough Hall on land the borough acquired through eminent domain at the corner of Centre and South streets...

Land dispute will cost school district $1.5M
The Pocono Record, Stroudsburg, PA - Jan.26, 2008
Pocono Mountain School District owes a landowner $1.5 million above what it paid for a lot it seized through eminent domain for a new elementary school, according to a ruling Friday by the county's Board of View...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Friday, January 25, 2008
 
Trustees receive $500 for easements to allow bridge construction
Meadville Tribune, PA - Jan. 25, 2008
...Township supervisors adopted a resolution at a special meeting Thursday to proceed with the eminent domain proceeding...

Opinion - Sheldon Richman: More victims of immigration control
The Bulletin, Philadelphia, PA - Jan. 24, 2008
...Apparently, at least some of the 102 landowners fear the government will steal their land - using the euphemism "eminent domain" - to build a fence to keep independent immigrants out of the country...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Thursday, January 24, 2008
 
York County Budget: Crime-prevention plan dropped
Evening Sun, Hanover, PA - Jan. 24, 2008
...The county tried to reverse its eminent domain decision in court last year, but the Kohrs are arguing that the county can't back out...

Infighting marks Mount Washington's past, present
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA - Jan. 24, 2008
...And several developers have expressed interest in the Edge site, near the Monongahela Incline, but they've been shooed away by residents worried about traffic, parking, eminent domain and the structural integrity of the hillside...

Allegheny County purchase of liens opens doors to development
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - Jan. 24, 2008
...The purchase also ends a 2007 lawsuit in which GLS accused the county of selling it "defective liens," such as ones for sites the government planned to acquire through eminent domain...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Wednesday, January 23, 2008
 
Gordon acts for park access
The Republican & Herald, Pottsville, PA - Jan. 23, 2008
...Eminent domain allows government entities to take or condemn private property for public use, with or without permission of the owner. However, the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution requires that the property owner be justly compensated for the land taken...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, January 21, 2008
 
Business Briefing: January 19: Agency: Streamline oil pipeline permit process
The Morning Call, Allentown, PA - Jan. 19, 2008
...The GAO said oil pipelines should have a single lead agency in charge of the permitting process, with ''eminent domain'' authority allowing it to claim land in the event of problems with a pipeline's right of way...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Thursday, January 17, 2008
 
Forum hears concerns about national electric transmission corridor
WPSU Public Broadcasting, State College, PA - Jan. 17, 2008
..Senator Casey told the gathering that the impact on property values, and possible use of eminent domain to plan the path of the powerlines are at the heart of the concerns about the proposed corridor...

Casey, state want more say in placement of power lines
The Times-Tribune, Scranton, PA - Jan. 17, 2008
...Mr. Casey convened a public forum at the state Capitol on plans by federal officials to use eminent domain if needed to locate high-voltage power lines in Pennsylvania...

Casey: U.S. sapping state power
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Jan. 17, 2008
...He said he also planned to look into amending the 2005 Energy Policy Act, which authorized the corridors. "I'm very troubled by the scope of eminent domain in the bill," Casey said...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Wednesday, January 16, 2008
 
Power-line proposals disputed
The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, PA - Jan. 16, 2008
...The transmission corridors give the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission authority on the placement of new power line proposals. In addition, a federal permit could allow the permit holder to exercise the right of eminent domain to acquire property rights to build a transmission project...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, January 14, 2008
 
Column - Monica Yant Kinney: Justices agree: N. Phila. school no leap of faith
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Jan. 13, 2008
...One court said yes - but then another called the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority's move on behalf of the fledgling Hope Partnership for Education a troubling use of eminent domain and an unconstitutional marriage between church and state...

L. Merion chooses firm for Ardmore renewal
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Jan. 12, 2008
...Three years ago, many business owners and residents mounted political and legal opposition to a township-backed plan that included the possible use of eminent domain to demolish private properties...

Home sweet home? Not on Lingle
Lebanon Daily News, PA - Jan. 12, 2008
...If a property owner disagrees with the settlement he is offered for his land, municipalities may use eminent domain to take a property. But Graeff pointed out that state law favors the property owner...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Friday, January 11, 2008
 
Canal dredging, bridge set for Snow Waters resort
Meadville Tribune, PA - Jan. 11, 2008
...Walker said he will seek consent from the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office for the park’s easement since that property is part of a charitable trust. He doesn’t see that as a problem. Should negotiations fail, the township could seek eminent domain to secure easements, Walker said...

Borough to seize land for sewage system
Meadville Tribune, PA - Jan. 11, 2008
...Cochranton Borough Council filed "declaration of taking" against the owners, which will allow the borough to receive the required easements needed for the project...

School officials thinking twice about eminent domain plans
WFMZ-TV, Allentown, PA - Jan. 11, 2008
...There are three possible plans, and each one involves taking properties by eminent domain...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Thursday, January 10, 2008
 
Pa. Supreme Court: Town can't seize farm
Bucks County Courier Times, Levittown, PA - Jan. 10, 2008
...The State Supreme Court has decided that Middletown officials cannot legally use the power of eminent domain to seize the 175-acre Stone Meadows Farm on Route 413...

Monroeville council overrides veto of authority ordinance
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA - Jan. 10, 2008
...reiterated the mayor's legal concerns by questioning whether council could place limits on the redevelopment authority's powers of eminent domain or to issue bonds, as the ordinance proposed...

Monroeville Council topples veto, creates agency
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - Jan. 10, 2008
...said Tuesday that eminent domain should only be exercised by people directly answerable to the voters, not by appointed officials. "This is a dangerous precedent," he said...

Opinion split on school project
The Pocono Record, Stroudsburg, PA - Jan. 10, 2008
..For sheer scale, the school project bears scant resemblance the saga of the Tocks Island Dam, for which the federal government invoked eminent domain in the 1960s and 1970s to seize more than 70,000 acres of land spanning three states and 22 municipalities, casting out thousands of people in the process...

Groups to sue DOE over power corridors
Forbes.com (Associated Press) - Jan. 9, 2008
...The department at the time said the federal right of eminent domain would counter a "not-in-my-backyard" syndrome that many in the industry believe has obstructed development of needed new capacity...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Wednesday, January 09, 2008
 
Preservationists get reprieve
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Jan. 9, 2008
...The Convention Center design calls for tearing down the early 20th-century Odd Fellows Hall at the corner of Cherry Street. But its owner, Myron Berman, has filed a lawsuit accusing the state of eminent-domain abuse....

Opinion - John Knox, et al: Koehler developers rap editorial
Erie Times-News, PA - Jan. 9, 2008
...These buildings should have been torn down years ago through the use of eminent domain at a cost estimated at more than $1 million to city taxpayers. Ultimately, we carried it out and saved the city from that cost...

West Reading Elementary Center development
WFMZ-TV, Allentown, PA - Jan.8, 2008
...There are three possible plans, and each one involves taking properties by eminent domain...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Tuesday, January 08, 2008
 
Summit Hill to pay $75,000 for building site
Morning Call, Allentown, PA - Jan. 8, 2007
...After more than a year of trying to acquire a dilapidated home so it can build a fire station and community center, Summit Hill has agreed to pay its New York owner $75,000 for the property to take it by eminent domain...

Oil City Council sets to address blighted housing
The Derrick, Oil City, PA - Jan. 8, 2007
...In 2007, city council heard how blight review and eradication projects were carried out in Warren and York. Funding for demolition, eminent domain issues and more were outlined...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Thursday, January 03, 2008
 
Hanover could change zoning
Evening Sun, Hanover, PA - Jan. 3, 2008
...The agreement put a stay on eminent-domain proceedings while the two sides negotiated a new lease regarding the operations of the field...


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