Sentences with phrase «eminent domain for»

Property Rights Concealed Carry Laws and Property Management Use of Eminent Domain for Economic Development

FHFA expressed concerns about the use of eminent domain for this purpose and indicated that the GSEs and the Federal Home Loan Banks were likely to experience losses.

Minnesota's new law limits the power of local governments to use eminent domain for public uses such as parks, bridges, roads and schools.

A 1954 Supreme Court decision in the case of Berman v. Parker gave governments latitude to use eminent domain for economic redevelopment purposes.

Spurred by such stories, including last year's Kelo vs. City of New London case — which galvanized opposition to the use of eminent domain for private development — property rights advocates across the country have been working for bills that would create curbs similar to those in Georgia.

Last summer, the FHFA issued a statement threatening to sue or take other aggressive action against communities that use eminent domain for this purpose.

Controversy over use of eminent domain for private development has been heating up for years, so even before Kelo, some states had beefed up their condemnation protections.

Farmers, ranchers and indigenous Nations are fighting with everything they have to protect the land and their communities from eminent domain for private gain.

Stephenson said the problem in a number of cases for charter schools has been with them seeking to use eminent domain to gather a small property to complete their planned footprint, where cities do not wish to exercise eminent domain for such a small purpose.

Deputy Borough President under Shulman, promoted overdevelopment and eminent domain for private interests while chair of land use for the City Council, endorsement from Koch, and most recently worked for a lobbying firm.

Melina Katz: Well, as a sponsor of Letitia James» bill, which limits the use of eminent domain for private business interests, it's a dangerous precedent to set in general.

Christine Quinn I do support the use of eminent domain for private developers, but as the other two council members said, it needs to be used carefully and infrequently in those circumstances.

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

It also calls out a new category of pipeline opponents, «Democrats and Tea Party types» who want to stop the use of eminent domain for pipelines exporting oil and gas.

The Niskanen Center is already preparing challenges against eminent domain for pipelines that feed liquefied natural gas exports terminals, though the argument has not been tried in court yet.

Not exact matches

The Trump administration could seek to use eminent domain to seize land needed for a border barrier, as well as support roads and other infrastructure, though it would likely face costly legal challenges that could delay construction for years.

«I think of these as high - tech Beanie Babies or 21st - century tulips,» says Robert Hockett, a law professor at Cornell who gained notoriety after the financial crisis for proposing that cities use «eminent domain» to buy out underwater mortgages.

The city of Boston even used eminent domain to clear a portion of land for a local land trust.

Absent such a standard, the shareholder proposal rule becomes nothing less than a species of private eminent domain by which the federal government allows a small minority to appropriate someone else's property — the company is a legal person, after all, and it is the company's proxy statement at issue — for use as a soap - box to disseminate their views.

Instead, she finds fault with the pipeline companies for using the threat of eminent domain to seize private land when they just plan to export the product.

Like anyone along the route of proposed oil or gas pipelines, Rosinski was in a position where, had she not signed the agreement, her land would have been taken anyway by virtue of eminent domain — a right the government can assert to seize private property for public use.

(The institute often represents property owners in eminent domain actions, including an Atlantic City woman who fought efforts to turn her home into a limousine parking lot for Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino.)

«SourceHOV began searching for new space about 18 months ago when the Texas Department of Transportation announced an expansion of State Highway 183, which would take away the firm's Irving production facility, under Eminent Domain,» said CBRE Vice President Dolores Wood - Euart, CCIM, who represented the firm in lease negotiations.

Eleven percent of New Hampshire's conservatives favor crony capitalist, eminent domain abuser, supporter of single - payer health care, and all - around - buffoon, Donald Trump for president.

It used to be that eminent domain only meant the government could seize your property for the public good.

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.

The village, which passed an ordinance authorizing eminent domain of the property in 2013, recently made a settlement with the mall owners for $ 2.2 million.

A lawyer for Lake in the Hills was waiting outside McHenry County Circuit Clerk Vernon Kays» office to file suit to acquire the property through eminent domain when the doors opened at 8 a.m. on a recent Tuesday.

As for Hoffman's recent agreement to sell the farm to the Park District, Berg said: «I don't believe you can sell property to avoid a lawsuit — in this case an eminent domain lawsuit.»

A lawyer for Lake in the Hills was waiting outside McHenry County Circuit Clerk Vernon Kays» office to file suit to acquire the property through eminent domain when the doors opened at 8 a.m. Tuesday.

With Cary's newly enhanced position, the bruising battle over the destiny of the Hoffman farm may continue for years in court: Lake in the Hills and the Cary Park District have both forcibly annexed the farm, and negotiations with the owner failed; they both filed eminent domain papers to condemn and seize the land.

«Trumak bargained away its right to develop Thunderbird in the manner it now proposes, in exchange for the promise of the Park District to cease its investigation into and possible acquisition of Thunderbird through eminent domain proceedings,» wrote Park Board President Christine Garry to Trumak owner Paul Makray in a certified letter dated Oct. 14.

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Meanwhile, back at Rancho Notorious, Charles Gargano and his quasi-public crew rev bulldozers for eminent domain land grabs and plot to shoot craps in endless casinos.

These features, combined with the power to dispense billions in federal and state funds, bond for debt, grant extensive tax breaks, override local land use laws, and take private property through eminent domain, makes the ESDC one of New York's most powerful honey pots.

For ultimately proving themselves not enamored of the war in Iraq, for coming down hard on the Supreme Court's wretched call on redevelopment related eminent domain in Kelo vs. New London, and for not buying into the lie that cheap foreign labor at home or abroad is good for the country, John and Jane Q. deserve a buttery stFor ultimately proving themselves not enamored of the war in Iraq, for coming down hard on the Supreme Court's wretched call on redevelopment related eminent domain in Kelo vs. New London, and for not buying into the lie that cheap foreign labor at home or abroad is good for the country, John and Jane Q. deserve a buttery stfor coming down hard on the Supreme Court's wretched call on redevelopment related eminent domain in Kelo vs. New London, and for not buying into the lie that cheap foreign labor at home or abroad is good for the country, John and Jane Q. deserve a buttery stfor not buying into the lie that cheap foreign labor at home or abroad is good for the country, John and Jane Q. deserve a buttery stfor the country, John and Jane Q. deserve a buttery star.

@ 6:28 — 9:06 — An explanation by the Town of Ulster Town Supervisor James Quigley on the need for eminent domain, where there is no mention of GlidePath.

We read the Kelo case back in 2005 and immediately drafted a law for Westchester County to ensure that our government would not allow for such misuse of eminent domain.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a deal on a $ 168.3 billion spending plan that increases school aid by $ 1 billion, restructures the state tax code to respond to changes in Washington, directs money to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority by raising fees on taxis and Uber rides and paves the way for the use of eminent domain near Penn Station.

Louis had earlier asked Cuomo about budget language that would pave the way for arms of the state to use eminent domain around Penn Station, the crucial transportation hub in midtown Manhattan.

It is like eminent domain, enshrined in the Fifth Amendment — in which the government pays fair - market value for property it takes for public use.

The Town Board on Wednesday agreed to start eminent domain proceedings for the former Red Apple gas station at Kenmore Avenue and Niagara Falls Boulevard owned by United Refining Co..

Amherst will try to use eminent domain to take over a former gas station property in Eggertsville that town officials for two decades have blasted as an unwelcome eyesore.

He said Degnan was too open to the use of eminent domain to acquire land for the bus terminal.

Asked what prompted his Tuesday letter and whether he spoke with Cuomo before sending it, Nadler repeated the allegations contained in that earlier letter: That Degnan has been conspiring to use eminent domain «for a massive, community - disrupting, terminal west of the current facility,» and that «Chairman Degnan has worked to exclude New York officials.»

John Wayne Smith has ambitious plans for the office of governor of Florida: cutting taxes to the bone, eliminating dozens of agencies and offices, rescinding laws that allow the use of eminent domain to take property for private gain, and getting rid of occupational licensing schemes that prevent so many people from earning a living.

«Why on earth would we want to come downtown, level blocks of our downtown, steal properties through eminent domain, then come back against those property owners to remediate those properties without indemnifying them for the cost of those?»

By Sean Ryan A dispute over what qualifies as blight is at the heart of Oak Creek's possible use of eminent domain to take a farm and clear the way for development.

Entergy had said the plant was losing $ 100 million a year, so Cuomo's team of lawyers and finance experts figured out a legal path to seize FitzPatrick for $ 1 using the New York Power Authority's right of eminent domain.

«You at FERC have an opportunity to take America back for rural communities like mine or to give a corporate partnership eminent domain to steal American land,» Roter said.