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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
$24 million ruling upheld against airport panel The Morning Call, Allentown, PA - Apr 29, 2009 ...The judgment Commonwealth Court upheld Tuesday includes $10.4 million for the land and an additional $14 million in interest and damages. In September, Doughty said the Federal Aviation Administration eventually will shoulder the cost of the award... Pennsylvania eminent domain news
Monday, April 20, 2009
Blighted properties likely to be razed by June The Citizens' Voice, Wilkes-Barre, PA - Apr 18, 2009 ...The Luzerne County Office of Community Development is overseeing the project, but the county’s Redevelopment Authority has hired a firm to complete and review the appraisals because the authority has eminent domain... Pennsylvania eminent domain news
Friday, April 17, 2009
Proposals would reform gas-pipeline approval The Bulletin, Philadelphia, PA - Apr 17, 2009 ...Currently, the Williams Transco energy company has taken 53 property owners, like East Caln Township homeowner Louis Ottaviano, to court to acquire land through eminent domain to expand a 2,600-foot pipeline that runs through the region. Mr. Gerlach and Mr. Sestak visited Mr. Ottaviano’s residence to announce their proposals... 18-month-old Reading panel declares 8 properties blighted The Reading Eagle, Reading, PA - Apr 17, 2009 A fledgling city housing panel took its first official steps Thursday night, determining that eight vacant properties are blighted and ordering the owners to explain at a hearing why the city shouldn't take them by eminent domain... Man's fight against development nears end of line The York Daily Record, PA - Apr 16, 2009 ...Now, the Rebert family and several others believe the only way to stop a sewer line from being built on the land is in the hands of the Codorus Township supervisors... Pennsylvania eminent domain news
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Cost of county offices grows Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster, PA - Apr 16, 2009 ...The former board voted in 2004 to take the building by eminent domain from Ira Trocki of New Jersey to meet the county government's need for more office space... Pennsylvania eminent domain news
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
County ponders $2.41M in office renovation Lancaster New Era, Lancaster, PA - Apr 14, 2009 ...In 2004, the county paid $8.3 million to take the building by eminent domain. An ongong legal challenge by the building's owner may add to the building's final purchase price... Pennsylvania eminent domain news
Monday, April 13, 2009
Opinion - George Will: If cash isn't property, Constitution isn't law The Times-Tribune, Scranton, PA - Apr 13, 2009 ...the Illinois Supreme Court ignored the public use question. Instead, the court said it is “well settled” that the takings clause applies only to government’s exercise of its eminent domain power regarding land, buildings and other tangible or intellectual property — but not money... Pa. grants permits for gas pipeline in Chesco The Mercury, Pottstown, PA - Apr 12, 2009 ..Many residents have balked at signing new right of way agreements. Transco has taken some of them to court under the power of eminent domain. The courts have not ruled yet on those cases... Pipeline gets under their skins Sunday News, Lancaster, PA - Apr 12, 2009 ...Don't fight the project, Mrs. Bullitt advises in the township's spring newsletter, because the company could turn around and seize the land by eminent domain. Instead, she wrote, negotiate, and know that pipeline builders must be sensitive to wetlands and other environmental hotspots, and to historic structures (buildings more than 50 years old)... Pennsylvania eminent domain news
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Plans submitted for sewage facility at Lauxmont The York Daily Record, PA - Apr 7, 2009 ...The settlement consists of $16.6 million for the land and $5.5 million -- plus $900,000 in interest -- to rid the county of lawsuits filed in response to its use of eminent domain... Pennsylvania eminent domain news
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Tripp Park school plan advances in Scranton The Times-Tribune, Scranton, PA - Apr 7, 2009 ...The biggest roadblock for a new elementary school in the Tripp Park section was removed Monday night as Scranton school directors approved paying $829,020 for the land through eminent domain... Pennsylvania eminent domain news
Monday, April 06, 2009
NYRI power line plan is dead Wayne Independent, Honesdale, PA - Apr 3, 2009 ...In addition to believing that NYRI would have violated the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, the UDC was concerned about the company’s potential use of eminent domain to acquire private property for this line, its impacts on the local environment, loss of property values, and detrimental effects on tourism... Kline takes another hit on razed building The Standard Speaker, Hazleton, PA - Apr 3, 2009 A condemned building that was razed through eminent domain has cost Kline Township another $4,500 in legal fees, according to an attorney representing the original owners of the property in Haddock... Pennsylvania eminent domain news
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Editorial: Properties of Merit brings a needed, positive emphasis Reading Eagle, Reading, PA - Apr 2, 2009 ...wields the big stick of eminent domain. The properties of owners who don't comply with regulations will be seized to be rehabilitated and sold, or demolished. Those property owners holding up their end, or who are willing to do better given a little help, deserve a pat on the back and a boost up. |