Sentences with phrase «limit eminent domain»

The bill would limit eminent domain to public - use projects and define «public use» as not including economic development.

In a statewide ballot later this year, they'll vote on whether to limit eminent domain decisions to elected officials, taking that power away from government agencies such as redevelopment corporations.

Some local governments have adopted regulations limiting eminent domain or sworn it off entirely.

Forty - seven state legislatures have considered legislation limiting eminent domain.

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But I would oppose limiting that option, that use, of eminent domain

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.

True, the Democrat controlled assembly over the months of its last session didn't act to reform the state's eminent domain laws as Rell requested, and were obviously loath to limit a power urban pols love.

He is the author of Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter (Stanford University Press, revised and expanded second edition, 2016), and The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. City of New London and the Limits of Eminent Domain (University of Chicago Press, 2015, rev. paperback ed., 2016), coauthor of A Conspiracy Against Obamacare: The Volokh Conspiracy and the Health Care Case (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and co-editor of Eminent Domain: A Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Likewise, when a government entity exercises its eminent domain power to condemn private property for public use, the government should provide - as required by the 5th Amendment - «just» compensation to affected property owners that covers not only the value of the property condemned but also all other reasonable and necessary costs generated by the condemnation action including, but not limited to, hiring legal counsel, obtaining temporary housing, lost business revenue, severance damages.

REALTORS ® are far from united in their view on the limits of eminent domain.

Since the 5 - to - 4 ruling on Kelo v. City of New London, Conn., was handed down in June, more than two - dozen states have introduced or plan to introduce legislation that would limit the use of eminent domain.

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