Sentences with phrase «using eminent»

While San Bernardino County, CA, had gone the furthest along in considering using eminent domain to seize mortgages, local governments in Chicago, Oakland, Sacramento and others have all expressed interest in the concept.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency is the latest to step in and threaten lawsuits to try to stop municipalities from using eminent domain to...

The bill would take a stick approach to localities using eminent domain on non-blighted properties for economic development by withholding for two years any federal economic development — related funds they receive.

NAR attended a recent symposium in Washington, D.C., that highlighted the many concerns and questions regarding a new proposal being considered by several local governments across the country to seize mortgages by using their eminent domain authority.

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.

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.

We will not, said BB&T, «lend to commercial developers that plan to build condominiums, shopping malls and other private projects on land taken from private citizens by government entities using eminent domain.»

The bi-state agency launched a design competition for the project, based on concepts that would necessitate using eminent domain and demolishing some private property on Ninth Avenue, between West 39th and 41st streets, Crain's reported last month.

Even though Oak Creek officials abandoned their idea of using eminent domain to acquire his land, Earl Giefer said he is worried he will become a target of city zoning enforcement.

State Sen. Patty Ritchie (R - Oswegathcie) and other state leaders have suggested that the plant could be saved if New York purchased or seized it using eminent domain.

The camp is on Gerhart's property, but Sunoco has claimed the land using eminent domain.

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.

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

He told me that under Roosevelt, the Federal Government used eminent domain to secure a 60 foot wide easement coast - to - coast along the border, including across his land.

Then there's Paladino straight to camera, promising to use eminent domain to block the mosque and use the site as a «war memorial, instead of a monument to those who attacked our country.»

Zephyr Teachout claimed that John Faso «took» money from fossil fuel companies while they were trying to use eminent domain to build a pipeline on the properties of residents in the 19th Congressional District.

American Iron and Metal wanted to reopen the «pick and pull» junk yard but the county said they had the option to use eminent domain to take over the property.

Was Teachout right about Faso taking money from fossil fuel companies that planned to use eminent domain?

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.

At 10 a.m., a new report will show black and Latino homeowners in the outer NYC boroughs remain in the grips of the foreclosure crisis because the value of their homes is less than the outstanding balance on their mortgages; Council members will call on the city to use eminent domain to seize «toxic» mortgage and modify them, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

New York will use eminent domain to knock down three buildings and obtain easements on 20 additional properties near Interstate 690 as part of a $ 74 million bridge replacement project, according to state transportation officials.

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.

When it comes to actually addressing whatever overcrowding those revised methods predict, the ideas get more controversial: The Council recommends the city use eminent domain to seize potential school sites where necessary, and consider redrawing school zones and district lines to balance population between schools that have too many kids and those with empty seats.

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.»

And he's willing to use eminent domain against property owners who do not cooperate.

He says the state should use eminent domain to seize the Islamic center site, but the Constitution prohibits such a taking.

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

In other mosque news, Tea Party candidate Carl Paladino said if he were elected Governor of New York, he would use eminent domain to halt the project and «make the site a war memorial instead of a monument to those who attacked our country.»

And he has upstaged his Republican rival for the nomination, Carl Paladino, who is pledging to use eminent domain to stop the mosque and make the entire surrounding district a war memorial.

Nardiello wants to use eminent domain to seize stalled developments and focus on housing for seniors.

The legislation will also prohibit Westchester County from contributing funds to any development that uses eminent domain to take private property for private use.

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.

For example, a government can use eminent domain to seize real estate along a proposed new highway route so the highway can be built in a nice straight line.

In the face of such broad support, the Sheriff's office, Suarez, and county attorney, Micheal P. Short, have decided to take the side of Energy Transfer, which has used eminent domain against local landowners and which threatens sacred and traditional Native territories along the pipeline route.Energy Transfer's pipeline would move approximatly 470,000 barrels oil per day with capacity to move 570,000 barrels daily from the Bakken fields of North Dakota to be exported out to the gulf.

TransCanada wants to use eminent domain to force Nebraska landowners along the route to sell, and unsurprisingly there's been legal pushback.

The federal Natural Gas Act allows private companies to use eminent domain to acquire property for natural - gas pipelines.

From the mid-1800s when the federal government used eminent domain to help make way for the railroads to the 1960s when cities used...

State and local governments, the resolution says, «should never use eminent domain to advantage one private property over another.»

But stadium plans are also replete with potential problems and controversies, from lack of funding or controversial tax breaks, to cities being required to use eminent domain to seize land, to one city being heartbroken when another «steals» its team, not to mention whether a city will take to the new team in town.

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.

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

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

Currently, there are several proposals circulating in localities across the country to allow local governments to use eminent domain to take residential underwater mortgages from lenders and investors.

Mortgage giant Freddie Mac is threatening legal action against the city of Richmond, Calif., which plans to use eminent domain to seize...

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.

Even now, the City of Sacramento plans to use eminent domain against two convenience stores that predated a residential zoning law that forbade commercial development in a particular area and were grandfathered.

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.

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.