Sentences with phrase «by eminent domain»

Elsewhere, homes are made into poker chips by eminent domain.

Update: As of December 2016, AG Healey successfully negotiated for compensation to the state for conservation land taken by eminent domain during the construction of the Connecticut Expansion Project.

«And John Faso took money from fossil fuel companies as they tried to take your land by eminent domain for a fracked gas pipeline.»

The school board voted to have Superintendent Eva Joseph review possibilities for taking the property by eminent domain so the district could seize the land before the charter school could be built.

For this reason, the AG's office settled out of court, negotiating a settlement of $ 640,000 for compensation to the state for conservation land taken by eminent domain during the construction of the pipeline (see TGPC v. Commonwealth Joint Motion).

«We have the right to acquire by eminent domain land within our boundaries,» Park District attorney James Lennon said.

April 14, 2006: Happy communities are all alike — but every community threatened by eminent domain abuse (EDA) is different.

«John Faso took money from fossil fuel companies as they tried to take your land by eminent domain for a fracked gas pipeline.»

In March 2015, FERC approved the application, granting Spectra broad authority that supersedes New York State Environmental Law to take additional parkland in Blue Mountain Reservation by eminent domain as part of the pipeline upgrade.

The Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency is reviewing the process of taking over the Roth Steel scrapyard along Onondaga Lake by eminent domain.

The plaintiff argued that the threatened acquisition of property for use as parkland by eminent domain during land use proceedings was a taking warranting payment of just compensation.

To seize property by eminent domain, New York law requires the authority to be acting in some legitimate public purpose, like the removal of blight or a threat to public safety or, much more controversially, to spur economic development.

«It was also determined that use of the rail (right - of - way) would appear to be prohibited... under Section 84, Railroad and Highway Crossings, of the New York Transportation Corporation Law, which states that «no pipeline shall take or use any lands of any railroad corporation or acquire by eminent domain the lands of any such railroad, except for purpose of direct crossing,»» they wrote.

There are two currently listed at 99k, but they are being threatened by eminent domain (be cautious).

«Forget about Granny's house,» says developer Hopkins — properties taken by eminent domain are often industrial or commercial.

As late as last week the CBC reported that Transcanada was moving huge quantities of pipe across the border and seizing land by eminent domain, certain that its permit would be granted.

In 1995, to make way for the new connector road to the Ted Williams Tunnel and an expansion of the Mass Transit System in Boston, Pier Fish's operating facility was taken by eminent domain.

A revised plan to be presented Wednesday removes golf holes from land outside park boundaries and attempts to address landowners» concerns that the Park District would gobble up their property by eminent domain.

Beach says the pipeline company is taking part of his property by eminent domain.

«The fact that the city will take it by eminent domain and pay fair market value focuses their attention on actual negotiation.»