Sentences with phrase «use of the eminent domain power»

The recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding public use of eminent domain powers, has sparked a surge of legislative action across the country.

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But the plan launched by the administration of Mayor Jerry Jennings allowed the «preferred developer» to use the power 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.

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.

Her legislation, offered near the end of session, authorized the state Power Authority to use eminent domain in taking over the FitzPatrick plant.

With regard to a planned Islamic community center two blocks from the site of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York City, in late July, 2010, Paladino issued a radio ad which stated, «As Governor, I will use the power of eminent domain to stop this mosque and make the site a war memorial instead of a monument to those who attacked our country.»

Municipalities across the country have seized on a novel approach to help resolve the current underwater mortgage crisis: using their power of eminent domain to seize mortgage loans from private investors through condemnation.

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.

Richmond, Calif., city officials approved a plan this week to become the first city in the nation to use their powers of eminent domain to seize underwater mortgages.

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.

Richmond, Calif., city officials approved a plan this week to become the first city in the nation to use their powers of eminent domain to...

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.

Menino is now considering using the power of eminent domain to take the property away from Vornado, according to the New York Observer.