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• The Blight of Eminent Domain.
• Eminent-domain abuses are rampant in every state in America. ... The latest in this long and deceitful process: The City Council, at the urging of the city manager, voted to take the property under eminent domain (while still claiming it is willing to "negotiate" a settlement) and plans to hand it over to developers, most likely at deep discount prices, to build a Costco retail center. The national discount chain is notorious for strong-arming cities into using eminent domain on its behalf. ... So cities must use eminent domain to assure that every piece of developable land has its tax potential maximized. ... But coveted retail complexes-1 percent of the sales tax goes into city discretionary budgets-are lured with ridiculous subsidies and promises of using eminent domain on their behalf. ... Agencies gain eminent-domain powers to take property from one private owner and give it to another. ... It's just too difficult to assemble 15-acre tracts without using eminent domain, according to a development specialist who handles land acquisition for Costco. ... It may not be nice to use eminent domain for private purposes, but in America the courts still insist that property owners get paid just compensation. ... It's not unusual for victims of eminent domain to spend years in court trying to get just compensation. ... Most disturbing, though, is the way the city puts the screws to victims of eminent domain when it comes time to pay fair market value. ... In one attempted use of eminent domain in Anaheim, the company doing the appraisal had a financial interest in the final project.

• HOME | NewsEmail This Story   Print This Story Freeport Uses Eminent Domain To Claim Private Property.
• "If this property is taken by eminent domain, then we're basically out of business," said Wright Gore, of Western Seafood.
• The city of Freeport is trying to buy, or use its power of eminent domain to acquire part of Western Seafood's land, as well as another complex owned by Trico Seafood. ...
• But Mayor Jim Barnett argues using eminent domain for a private business is justified because the proposed marina will benefit the public good, not just the developer.
• The practice of eminent domain is common across the country.
• But South Texas College of Law professor Paul McGreal said the Supreme Court has ruled that the term "public good" gives local governments a lot of latitude when dropping the hammer of eminent domain.
• Eminent Domain Report .

• « HOME / NewsEmail This Story    Print This Story Cigar Shop Owner Loses Battle To Eminent Domain.
• The San Diego City Council voted Tuesday to begin eminent domain proceedings against Ahmed Mesdaq, the owner of the Gran Havana Cigar Store, located on Fifth Avenue and J Street. ...
• March 23, 2004: Downtown Eminent Domain May Be Extended 12 Years .

• Growth leads to more eminent domain cases.
• And with growth rates in Tallahassee and Leon County climbing, more and more property owners find themselves in the crosshairs of eminent domain, a power that allows governments to take private property for public use.
• , a local attorney who represents residents in eminent domain cases. ...

• Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain .
• In THQ and Heliotrope Studios' Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain, your goal is nothing less than the total elimination of every hostile force in the galaxy, and the crowning of yourself as emperor. ... It is unoriginal -- Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain adds nothing new to the mix, and borrows heavily from just about every game in the space sim genre. ...

• How cities use eminent domain to seize property for private developers.
• The case illustrates dramatically how the effort to redevelop America’s cities has transformed eminent domain -- the government’s power to seize private property -- from a narrowly construed last resort into a widely, almost routinely used development tool.
• Now Bailey is hoping the courts will stop the city from using its power of eminent domain to improve Lenhart’s bottom line. ...
• Eminent domain is becoming a primary tool for promoting urban development. ...
• Eminent Domain Abuse and the Courts.
• Eminent domain has a long history, and it isn’t likely to go away. ...
• Not surprisingly, Finkle feels that eminent domain is critical to the revitalization of cities. ...
• "Lose eminent domain in urban settings," Finkle says, "and the only land that will be developed is green space on the edge of cities. ...
• That said, Finkle doesn’t defend eminent domain’s recent form; he recognizes that the power should have limits. ...
• Today redevelopment agencies enjoy more discretion than ever, and eminent domain is becoming their tool of choice: .
• Bailey’s position," Myers wrote, the city "properly" used its eminent domain power to take his property. ...
• " Apparently, Mesa’s policy of enabling well-established private businessmen to covet their neighbor’s property and use the city’s power of eminent domain to seize it is not arbitrary or capricious.
• "In eminent domain," notes Notre Dame law professor Nicole Garnett, "there is no means-end scrutiny at all. ...
• Supporters of eminent domain disagree. ...
• " For the most part, Finkle and other redevelopment advocates claim, eminent domain is used reasonably and appropriately.
• Not every court has been as amenable to eminent domain abuses as Myers’. ...

• Tunica landowners win two eminent domain cases involving airport changes.
• Last week, juries in eminent domain cases found for landowners in amounts of $783,040 and $97,600 for 97-acre and 21-acre tracts respectively. ...

• Transit district uses eminent domain powers again in San Marcos.
• By: PAUL SISSON - Staff Writer OCEANSIDE ---- The North County Transit District has again voted to use its eminent domain powers to wipe away a road easement in San Marcos in the Walnut Hills area near Shelly Drive. ...
• Transit district board member Hal Martin of San Marcos abstained from Thursday's eminent domain vote. ...
• Transit district uses eminent domain powers again in San Marcos.

• Home Safe Home: Ohio Supreme Court Protects Home From Eminent Domain Destruction.

• County puts off eminent domain effort Officials hope to negotiate Hadley land purchase to build emergency radio tower, road .
• BALLSTON SPA -- Saratoga County is backing off efforts to take a Hadley mountaintop by eminent domain, hoping instead to negotiate a price for the land to install an emergency radio tower there.
• Condemnation is the first step in an eminent domain proceeding. ...

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• Eminent domain threatens American dream.
• He figures he will be in desperate financial trouble if the city presses ahead with its absurd deployment of eminent domain. ...
• Choudhury is not really supposed to be sitting in this restaurant on this sunny afternoon in the city, not as eminent domain is traditionally defined. ...

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