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Government as Land-grabber.(Brief Article)
Rob Gurwitt, "Land Grab" in Governing (January 2001), 1100 Connecticut Avenue N.W. #1300, Washington, D.C. 20036.
State and local governments have a nearly unlimited power to condemn and then to seize private property using powers of "eminent domain." Some state laws permit appropriating property that is "blighted" and define "blight" to include property with "unusual topography" or inadequate parking.
But across the country, reports Governing correspondent Gurwitt, citizens are fighting back, especially where government is just taking land away from existing businesses to give it to enterprises it prefers:
* Colorado Republican state representative Andy McElheny successfully restricted the ability of government to condemn property. Prior to McElheny's bill, government could use any ...
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- General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony December 1, 2006 700+ words
...conduct a nationwide study on the use of eminent domain by state and local governments. This...the purposes for and extent to which eminent domain can be and has been used; (2) the...use to acquire land, including by eminent domain; (3) how the use of eminent domain...
- Eminent domain reform on horizon: local government, environmentalists seek to...
- Newspaper article from: California Planning & Development Report Shigley, Paul January 1, 2007 700+ words
...Proposition 90, new proposals to alter eminent domain law are already arising. Anti-tax...state lawmakers are all working on eminent domain proposals, and it is likely that voters...will lose at least some measure of eminent domain authority, as even the California...
- Eminent domain will get airing in 2006 legislative session.
- Newspaper article from: Finance and Commerce Daily Newspaper, MN January 12, 2006 700+ words
...proposals floating around the Capitol, eminent domain is expected to be a dominant issue...government can take property under eminent domain for purposes of economic development...couple of bills would have prohibited eminent domain in cases where property would be transferred...
- Eminent domain is an essential development tool to acquire contaminated sites...
- Newspaper article from: St. Charles County Business Record, MO May 19, 2006 700+ words
Byline: Shawna M. Bligh Eminent domain is often an essential development...contamination. However, using eminent domain for private projects, such...property, through its powers of eminent domain, and sells it for private development...
- States and eminent domain: limiting public use, increasing...
- Magazine article from: Valuation Insights & Perspectives Morton, Justin September 22, 2005 700+ words
...ITS JUNE 2005 RULING IN THE LANDMARK EMINENT DOMAIN CASE, KELO V. CITY OF NEW LONDON...governments could limit how localities use eminent domain. Specifically, the court said states...definition of "public use" to allow eminent domain only for traditional definitions of...
- Official defends eminent domain.
- News wire article from: Macon Telegraph (Macon, GA) February 13, 2006 700+ words
...week that his proposal to rein in eminent domain powers might be too weak. Perdue's bills would strip eminent domain power from development and housing...Some lawmakers, however, say eminent domain power should only be used to acquire...
- BG's eminent domain plan gets noticed.
- Newspaper article from: Daily News (Bowling Green, KY) November 7, 2005 700+ words
...Bowling Green's recent restriction of eminent domain might serve as the model for new statewide...vote, banning themselves from using eminent domain for anything but expressly public projects...any Kentucky government's use of eminent domain to " 'qualified public uses,' involving...
- Panel tackles eminent domain.
- Newspaper article from: The Indianapolis Star (Indianapolis, Indiana) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) August 11, 2005 700+ words
...the first time to study the issue of eminent domain, is to balance private property rights...ensure Hoosiers get a fair price when eminent domain is used. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a government may use eminent domain to obtain private property that later...
- California Voters Pass Eminent Domain Reform: Impact Limited.
- News wire article from: Mondaq Business Briefing June 5, 2008 700+ words
...and local governments from using eminent domain to take an owner-occupied, single...California voters rejected a competing eminent domain proposal, Proposition 98. Prop. 98 would have taken eminent domain reform to a new level. Termed...
- Cities may dodge stricter eminent domain standard; Local `home rule' still...
- Magazine article from: Crain's Cleveland Business June 4, 2007 700+ words
...new set of rules to guide the use of eminent domain before the Legislature adjourns. But...legislative schizophrenia may leave municipal eminent domain untouched, which would be a relief...the Legislature decides to control eminent domain on the state level. "Where we have...
Source: HighBeam Research, Government as Land-grabber.(Brief Article)