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Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Thursday, June 30, 2011
 
Penn Twp. has novel strategy to save Red Rose Inn
The Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA – Jun 30, 2011
…On June 15, the board approved a resolution to take the property through eminent domain. A fair market value will be determined and paid to the current owner…

Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Wednesday, June 29, 2011
 
URA executive decries eminent domain for Strip District
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA – Jun 29, 2011
…At stake in the briefing were business owners and residents' concerns that, with the new certification, property developers hungry to seize valuable real estate could use an old statute to have properties declared condemned and snatch them up via eminent domain…

Eminent domain likely out in Strip
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA – June 29, 2011
Development in the city's Strip District will not be able to use eminent domain once city council adopts a resolution certifying a 75-acre area for renewal, officials said on Tuesday...

City to ensure eminent domain not used in Strip
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA – Jun 28, 2011
…Act 35, passed in 2006, Mr. Svoboda explained, prohibits the use of eminent domain in such redevelopment areas. But to the best of his knowledge, he said, no case has established the precedent that developers still would be prohibited from attempting to use an older, still-standing law...

Borough Threatens To Take Pizza Shop To Build Walkway
69News, WFMZ-TV, Allentown, PA – Jun 28, 2011
…The borough is using eminent domain to acquire Fleetwood Pizza. On Tuesday, June 14, Hoimes said she received a letter from the borough's attorneys offering her $183,000 for the fair market value of the property…

Simple but significant: Artist's impressions of $50m memorial for victims of Flight 93
The Daily Mail, London, UK – Jun 28, 2011
…They and the families spent years arguing over the sale. In 2008 the federal government weighed in threatening to use eminent domain to take the land...

Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, June 27, 2011
 
Last breaker standing
The Citizens’ Voice, Wilkes-Barre, PA – Jun 26, 2011
…Luzerne County commissioners tried to take the property by eminent domain in January 2007, but had to drop it in January 2009 because they didn't have the money…

Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Friday, June 24, 2011
 
PPL selects possible routes for Northeast-Pocono power line; sets public hearings
The Times-Tribune, Scranton, PA – Jun 24, 2011
…With PUC approval also comes the right to condemn land by eminent domain, which would initiate a judicial process in which the value of the easement is set. That power is controversial, but Mr. Wirth said the company doesn't anticipate having to use it...

Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, June 20, 2011
 
'Work Orders': Vandals tried to knock porch off Erie home
Erie Times-News, PA – Jun 19, 2011
…The property -- a four-bedroom house and a detached garage, which also is damaged -- was declared blighted in October 2009. That's the first step in taking it by eminent domain.…

Two buildings being spared hockey's hit
The Morning Call, Allentown, PA – Jun 17, 2011
…With the city aggressively working to buy 33 other properties in the path of the arena, and threatening to use eminent domain to take possession if the owners don't agree to sell, news that Farr is being spared troubles some…

Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Friday, June 17, 2011
 
Photos help city get blight angle on dilapidated properties
The Reading Eagle, Reading, PA – Jun 17, 2011
…The owners of blighted properties have 60 days to correct problems. If not the city can take the properties by eminent domain.

Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Thursday, June 16, 2011
 
Lancaster County targets downtown blight
Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster, PA – Jun 15, 2011
…Only after exhausting all efforts in that avenue will the Reinvestment Board declare a property as chronically blighted, which then opens the door for the authority to take it by eminent domain...

Opinion - Kevin F. Flemming: Hockey complex necessary to boost downtown Allentown
The Morning Call, Allentown, PA – Jun 15, 2011
Although the use of eminent domain to support development projects is controversial, in the case of the Allentown hockey arena project it's a legitimate strategy…

Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Wednesday, June 15, 2011
 
Agreement reached on Hamburg site
The Reading Eagle, Reading, PA – Jun 15, 2011
…The borough then filed a complaint in Berks County Court seeking a court order to enter the property through eminent domain…

Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Tuesday, June 14, 2011
 
Frackville council approves bid for demolition at January fire site
The Republican-Herald, Pottsville, PA – Jun 14, 2011
…Semanchik asked for permission to obtain the property at 530 W. Howard St. through the eminent domain code to condemn the property for the demolition. Borough council granted the permission, along with making the arrangements for the property transfers on the other four homes…

Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, June 13, 2011
 
Wyoming County to update rules for natural-gas pipelines
The Times-Tribune, Scranton, PA – Jun 13, 2011
…In some states, but not Pennsylvania, natural gas companies have the power of eminent domain to run pipelines. That might change, and if it does, it could affect local ordinances...

Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Wednesday, June 08, 2011
 
Allentown property owners holding out on deal to clear way for hockey arena
The Express-Times, Easton, PA – June 8, 2011
…Despite these fears, Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski said that he does not believe the negotiation process is over and that eminent domain will only be used if it is the last resort…

Opinion- Paul Carpenter: In Pennsylvania, freedom's just another word …
The Morning Call, Allentown, PA – June 7, 2011
…On the other hand, it said, "The state's homeschool laws are perhaps the worst in the country," and "eminent domain has been partially reformed [tell that to people being kicked out of their property to make way for a hockey arena in Allentown], but asset-forfeiture law is quite bad."…

Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Friday, June 03, 2011
 
Editorial: I-83 needs a redesign
York Daily Record, PA – Jun 3, 2011
…Our community needs to be willing to pay some prices for this. That includes the loss of land through eminent domain and higher taxes…

Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Wednesday, June 01, 2011
 
Opinion – Michael Molovinsky: Eminent domain would rip out downtown Allentown's heart
The Morning Call, Allentown, PA – Jun 1, 2011
…While other cities have prospered from their history, we can't wait to tear down the heart of our downtown — by eminent domain. I say no thank you.

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