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Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Wednesday, March 31, 2010
 
EMTA expansion to remake area, displace a business
Erie Times-News, PA – Mar 31, 2010
…EMTA on March 11 filed two petitions in Erie County Court to take eight of the 28 targeted properties by eminent domain, with EMTA to pay the owners "just compensation," which will be determined later. Disputes would go before a judge…

EMTA project to redevelop 9-acre swath on east side
Erie Times-News, PA – Mar 30, 2010
…EMTA earlier this month filed the first set of eminent-domain actions in Erie County Court as it seeks to take ownership of 28 parcels for the project, which is expected to cost about $32 million in state and federal funds…


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, March 29, 2010
 
Despite outcry, county eyes Moon Lake Park drilling as money-maker
The Citizens Voice, Wilkes-Barre, PA – Mar 29, 2010
…The act allows the state to issue bonds to purchase, by itself or with a political subdivision such as a county or municipality, land for public parks or other conservation, recreation and historical preservation purposes, according to the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Web site. The act also allowed for eminent domain of property to be used for the same purposes…


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Tuesday, March 23, 2010
 
Contract awarded for Blough water line
The Tribune Democrat, Johnstown, PA – Mar 22, 2010
…After notification is posted, the property owners have 30 days to either meet with authority members to work out the easement agreement or file an objection in Somerset County Court…

Bid approved for Blough water project
Daily American, Somerset, PA – Mar 22, 2010
…Township Solicitor Patrick Fanelli said that after eminent domain is filed on the property, he would rather have the owner sign off on the easement rather than wait for the full process to proceed through the county courts…


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, March 22, 2010
 
Ohio Blenders, city agency at odds over land’s value
The York Daily Record, PA – Mar 21, 2010
The city Redevelopment Authority and Ohio Blenders continue trading arguments in an eminent domain lawsuit related to the company's former land in the Northwest Triangle…

Residents concerned about possible demise of boat launch
The Dallas Post, Dallas, PA – Mar 21, 2010
…Residents asked McCormick about condemnation of the property. Condemnation, McCormick explained, means the borough would pay a determined market value of the land through eminent domain…

Lower Windsor, East Prospect discuss Lauxmont sewer proposal
The York Daily Record, PA – Mar 20, 2010
…The settlement consisted 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 to build a park…


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Thursday, March 18, 2010
 
Developers will wait for PennDOT to weigh in on lake access point
The Citizens Voice, Wilkes-Barre, PA – Mar 18, 2010
…To make the site public, the borough, state or county could condemn it and start eminent domain proceedings - but it requires compensating the property owners, Terrana said. He said that could cost thousands of dollars…

Boat launch ownership aired
The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, PA – Mar 18, 2010
…When residents asked McCormick about condemnation of the property, he replied that condemnation means the borough would pay a determined market value of the land through the eminent domain process…

Easton files papers to seize Perkins, theater sites
Morning Call, Allentown, PA – Mar 18, 2010
…Cohen said Saini and developer Lou Pektor, whose Ashley Development owns the Majestic site and once planned to build a condominium tower there, have 30 days to file objections regarding the city's plans to use eminent domain…

City takes properties by eminent domain
WFMZ-TV, Allentown, PA – Mar 17, 2010
The city of Easton filed paperwork today to take a pair of abandoned properties by eminent domain, according to Mayor Sal Panto…

Easton files eminent domain paperwork for Perkins, Marquis Theater properties
The Express-Times, Easton, PA – Mar 17, 2010
…The redevelopment authority wants to claim 123 and 181 S. Third St. by eminent domain, according to the declarations of taking filed in Northampton County Court…


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Wednesday, March 17, 2010
 
Decision pending on site for federal courthouse
Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster, PA – Mar 17, 2010
…Gray said the GSA, the agency of the federal government that owns property and leases it to the federal courts, requested local officials keep the list of potential sites under wraps so it can negotiate a fair price with the owners. "They don't want to use eminent domain," Gray said…


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Tuesday, March 16, 2010
 
Heritage park grant sought
The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, PA – Mar 16, 2010
…The property owner, Reading Co., had contested the county’s eminent domain proceedings and then backed out of plans to lease the land to the county, county officials said…

Motion to fill long-vacant Scranton school chief nurse post doesn’t get vote
The Times-Tribune, Scranton, PA – Mar 16, 2010
…The board voted to authorize the purchase of two properties near Dorothy Street and North Everett Avenue by eminent domain. The district will pay no more than $51,000 for the parcels, which will be used for the construction of the new elementary school…

Court cases support conservation easements
Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster, PA – Mar 16, 2010
…Only one legal maneuver can trump solid conservation easements, Ratley-Beach said. That is eminent domain. It has been used to take preserved land…


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, March 15, 2010
 
Plum adopts tax abatement program
Advance Leader, Pittsburgh, PA – Mar 15, 2010
…Thomas said LERTA is not part of eminent domain -- where a government can take private property for public use. "We're not taking anyone's property," Council President Mike Doyle said…

Attorney for Centralians suspended; case delayed
Republican Herald, Pottsville, PA – Mar 15, 2010
…The attorney for a handful of Centralia families battling government buyout offers was sanctioned and suspended by the state Supreme Court last month…

East Prospect sewer could service Lauxmont development
The York Daily Record, York, PA – Mar 13, 2010
…The plant would be permitted under a settlement between the county and the Kohr family stemming from the county's condemnation of part of Lauxmont Farms for a park…


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Thursday, March 11, 2010
 
Route 28 shop owner plans to fight eminent domain
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - Mar 11, 2010
..."They said I could sign the papers or they would start the process to take my property by eminent domain," Rotondo said. "I went to an attorney ... and he told me to sign the papers."...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Wednesday, March 10, 2010
 
Opinion - Ryan Conrad: Lower Macungie seeks comments on historic Leister Farmhouse
The Morning Call, Allentown, PA - Mar 10, 2010
...By way of background, in 2005 the then-township supervisors acquired the 104-acre Leister Farm property by exercising their power of eminent domain...

City buys building for future expansion
Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster, PA - Mar 9, 2010
...The city took the property througheminent domain, but Gray said the taking — from the owners of the adjacent Marion Court Room restaurant — was amicable throughout the process...

City, housing complex negotiate over Coal Street project
The Citizens' Voice, Wilkes-Barre, PA - Mar 9, 2010
...Resolving a challenge by a low-income housing complex to an city eminent-domain request is the lone obstacle remaining before work can begin on the widening of Coal Street, a project 10 years in the making, to provide a direct route into the downtown...

Pa. coal town above mine fire claims massive fraud
The Associated Press - Mar 9, 2010
...In a filing late Monday, four property owners and the borough of Centralia asked a state appeals court to block Pennsylvania officials from seizing their homes. The state condemned the homes in the early 1990s but only recently moved to oust the remaining holdouts...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Tuesday, March 09, 2010
 
Letter: Objectionable tactics
Press & Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton, NY - Mar 9, 2010
...If approved, the company may be awarded power of eminent domain in Pennsylvania. The proposed pipeline runs through Susquehanna and Broome counties, connecting with the Millennium Pipeline in Windsor. Pennsylvania...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, March 08, 2010
 
Letters: Dam was, isn't suitable for the Delaware
Pocono Record, Stroudsburg, PA - Mar 8, 2010
...A dam was to be built, families were evicted by the federal government through eminent domain. Many left heartbroken to be torn from land that had been passed from generation to generation...

Mixed messages on Americus
The Morning Call, Allentown, PA - Mar 7, 2010
The Allentown Redevelopment Authority wants to put the Americus Center hotel on the city's blighted property list, the first in a series of steps that could lead to the city acquiring the property through eminent domain...

Editorial: A third way on watershed management
Grand Forks Herald, ND - Mar 6, 2010
...Take the Susquehanna River commission. In 1970, the legislatures of Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York passed the Susquehanna River Basin Compact, creating the commission...

Ft. Loudon Sidelights: Patton House
Public Opinion, Chambersburg, PA - Mar 5, 2010
...Wm. H. Hoerner later owned the farm and final private owner, Leroy Hoffeditz, sold it to the Pa. Department of Forests and Waters under Eminent Domain Action...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Friday, March 05, 2010
 
PennDOT takes part of FesslerUSA property for Rt. 61 project
Republican & Herald, Pottsville, PA - Mar 5, 2010
...PennDOT is planning a major redesign of Route 61 in Deer Lake and West Brunswick Township, and has been exercising its right of eminent domain to take part or all of many properties in the area...

Shoe maker marches to Mount Joy
Lebanon Daily News, PA - Mar 4, 2010
...Up-Front Footwear was forced to find a new home after its building at 925 Scull St. was taken by eminent domain as part of the Route 72 bridges project over the Norfolk Southern railroad lines...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, March 01, 2010
 
Residents vow to fight plans to revive local power line route
Morning Call, Allentown, PA - Feb 28, 2010
...His property sits along one of several proposed routes for a $510 million, 500-kilovolt line from PPL's Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Luzerne County to Roseland, N.J.''They take a pretty big chunk of your land. They get to use it and I get to pay the taxes,'' said LeBus, who has joined others opposed to the proposal in a group called Drop the Lines...


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