Sentences with phrase «use of 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

«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.

For the record, that's two hits in two days: The first over the real estate developer's so - called «liberal» record and bygone support of universal health care and taxing the rich, and the second for his use of eminent domaFor the record, that's two hits in two days: The first over the real estate developer's so - called «liberal» record and bygone support of universal health care and taxing the rich, and the second for his use of eminent domafor his use of eminent domain.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Public Hearing on Legislation by Maisano & Abinanti to Protect Private Property Owners - law bans use of County funds for projects misusing eminent domain

«We are witnessing distressing instances where eminent domain is used by or for powerful developers and the rights of private citizens are undercut.»

RTP funding may not go toward property condemnation (eminent domain), construction of new trails for motorized use on federally managed public lands or for facilitating motorized access on otherwise non-motorized trails.

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.

If you believe in the Republican platform, you can't support eminent domain,»» she said, referring to forced sale of private property to the government for public use — a process TransCanada invoked and would presumably have to use again to gain right - of - way for Keystone XL.

Keller, Gibson and other opponents of the project emphasize ETP's dishonesty in using the eminent domain law to forcibly take land from reluctant ranchers under the guise that a substantial portion of the gas in the pipeline would be used for domestic purposes.

Shall Section 11 of Article I (Bill of Rights) of the Constitution of Virginia be amended (i) to require that eminent domain only be exercised where the property taken or damaged is for public use and, except for utilities or the elimination of a public nuisance, not where the primary use is for private gain, private benefit, private enterprise, increasing jobs, increasing tax revenue, or economic development; (ii) to define what is included in just compensation for such taking or damaging of property; and (iii) to prohibit the taking or damaging of more private property than is necessary for the public use?

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.

The plaintiffs nowhere affirm, that private property has been taken for public use, by the state, in the exercise of the eminent domain; nor do the defendants allege it, nor do the court below; on the contrary, Chief Justice PARKER says, 7 Pick.

His transactional practice includes leasing, lease administration for developers and tenants, acquisition and sales, portfolio management, regulation of real property use and development, eminent domain litigation and counseling, and abstracting lease portfolios, land use regulation and permitting, code compliance, lease termination negotiations, and public relations issues.

Number 4, «Auction off legal research access to West or Lexis,» is interesting and it would be a good start — Wexis should definitely have to pay more for its captive audience — but I'd definitely take this further: Put Wexis out of business, either by using eminent domain to buy them out (replacing their for - profit services with non-profit analogues), or by simply creating a publicly - funded competitor that offers the same material for free to anyone with an internet connection.

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.

On Aug. 8, 2013 the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), which regulates Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, released a statement on the use of eminent domain to restructure performing loans along with an analysis of the implications for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the FHFA.

The federal government should not establish criteria for the use of eminent domain by state and local governments.

Ohio's highest court has considered whether it was permissible for a city to use its eminent domain powers to seize private property when the only public purpose identified in support of the taking was the economic benefits to be gained by the property seizure.

Section 1033 of the Internal Revenue Code («1033 Exchange») provides that real property that is or will be the subject of a compulsory or involuntary conversion either from condemnation via an eminent domain proceeding by local, state or Federal government, in whole or in part, can be exchanged by you on a tax - deferred basis for «like - kind» real property that is similar or related in service or use to the property that was involuntarily converted.

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

Supports eminent domain authority only for a public use (e.g., ownership by a public entity), as well as a broad interpretation of «just» compensation, to include all reasonable and necessary costs which result from exercise of such authority, not just the value of the property condemned.

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

From the mid-1800s when the federal government used eminent domain to help make way for the railroads to the 1960s when cities used the power of condemnation to clear slums, Americans accepted the idea that, for the greater good, government would sometimes have to obtain private property for highways, dams or other projects.