Monthly Archives:: June 2008

ENERGY DELIVERY: Six possible utility routes include razing up to 3,500 houses or infringing on wildland. By Jennifer Bowles and Imran Ghori A transmission route being considered by Los Angeles to carry renewable energy from the Salton Sea could lead to the condemnation of 3,500 homes and other properties in the Inland region to make… Read more »

By Airan Scruby PICO RIVERA – City officials say they are ready to proceed with a $43.4 million plan to tunnel under railroad tracks on Passons Boulevard, creating an underpass for traffic. In the process, residents of five houses and the 90-unit Rivera Villa apartment complex will be relocated, and their homes demolished. “It’s probably… Read more »

By Patrick McGreevy SACRAMENTO — Backers of the defeated Proposition 98, which would have phased out rent control and broadly limited government’s ability to take private property, vowed Wednesday to take the eminent domain issue to the state Capitol, in hopes of persuading legislators to do what voters would not. At the same time, Tuesday’s… Read more »

By Dan Abendschein Californians easily passed an eminent domain ballot measure Tuesday that will protect some residential properties from being seized by the government. Proposition 99’s passage could affect the future of a proposed multimillion-dollar project in Baldwin Park that could include a hotel, a 1,000-student charter school and luxury housing. Marko Mlikotin, president of… Read more »

By Paul Burgarino John Stoneking says he has been under siege by the county for the past two decades. Stoneking, a 61-year resident in the Orbisonia Heights area of Bay Point, has fought plans by the county’s Redevelopment Agency to redevelop his 7.6-acre neighborhood near Bailey Road into a transit-oriented housing and commercial area. He… Read more »

By Sandra Stokley GLEN AVON – Jurupa park officials, thwarted by Riverside County supervisors in their bid to seize property improperly sold to Congressman Ken Calvert and his partners, are taking a different route to obtain the land. With the backing of California law, the Jurupa Area Recreation and Park District will proceed with a… Read more »

But passage of Prop. 99 limits hotel project By Laith Agha The Seaside City Council voted unanimously Thursday to revive its power of eminent domain within areas earmarked for redevelopment, although the recent passing of Proposition 99 put a major snag in a hotel project within one of the zones proposed by former baseball star… Read more »

By Doug Haberman RIVERSIDE – The city of Riverside’s Redevelopment Agency has settled three eminent domain lawsuits filed against the Garner family for properties the agency wants to see redeveloped. The cost was $5,894,680 for a total of 2.4 acres in three locations, Development Director Belinda Graham said. The agency paid almost $3.5 million for… Read more »