City pays for store’s relocation expenses: The Downey Patriot, 8/29/08
DOWNEY—After exercising eminent domain powers to take control of a local cash advance shop, the city will pay approximately $180,000 for its relocation costs. The City Council approved the lump sum payment this week. The city took control of the Speedy Cash at 8850 Imperial Hwy. earlier this year as part of its Lakewood Boulevard… Read more »
Baldwin Park scales back redevelopment plan: San Gabriel Valley Tribune, 8/28/08
By Tania Chatila BALDWIN PARK – City officials plan to scale back their downtown redevelopment project and leave untouched 40 homes originally slated for demolition. The decision was made in the last two weeks and announced at Wednesday’s City Council meeting. Officials say they chose to exclude the properties – which comprise about 16 acres… Read more »
Jurupa district voters endorse using eminent domain for park site; The Press-Enterprise, 8/26/08
By Sandra Stokely GLEN AVON – By a nearly 3-1 margin, voters on Tuesday gave Jurupa parks officials the green light to begin eminent domain proceedings to seize 4.3 acres of land from Rep. Ken Calvert and his partners for development as ball fields. The final tally overwhelmed even Jurupa Area Recreation and Park District… Read more »
Moreno Valley to decide whether to pursue eminent domain for land-use rights: The Press-Enterprise, 8/25/08
By Dan Lee MORENO VALLEY – The City Council will consider tonight using eminent domain to acquire land from nine property owners to help improve a section of Day Street. City officials are planning to improve Day Street between Alessandro Boulevard and Cottonwood Avenue. The project will require officials to obtain easements or the rights… Read more »
Brothers battle Norco to rebuild homestead the city tore down; The Press-Enterprise, 8/22/08
By Sonja Bjelland and Alicia Robinson NORCO – The weedy, rubble-covered parcel on Mountain Avenue does not have a proper house, but it is still home to Paul and David Corson. The brothers, who have lived all of their 60-plus years on the same plot, saw the house their father built bulldozed in January, after… Read more »
Slow-growth showdown looms in San Marcos; Today’s Local News, 8/22/08
By Pat Sherman When John Stanley surveys the five acres he owns off Bent Avenue, his mind wanders to the wild geese taking flight from the dew-speckled grass. It’s a pleasant, albeit brief, vision that is quickly replaced by memories of his more than three-decade battle with city officials over the property. When he and… Read more »
Airport, Evergreen, Wang on the clock; Big Bear Grizzly, 8/14/08
By Brian Charles The countdown has started. The Big Bear Airport district board approved a resolution of necessity to acquire the terminal building through eminent domain during its Aug. 6 meeting. The resolution doesn’t begin the eminent domain process, said Brad Pierce, attorney for the airport. It only puts the parties involved on a time… Read more »
Part of doctor’s property is in Visalia’s sights for Santa Fe project: Visalia Times-Delta, 8/8/08
Doctor must choose between smaller clinic site and eminent-domain suit By Gerald Carroll Visalia doctor Magdy Maksy has known for 15 years that Santa Fe Street at Noble Avenue, where his medical office is located, would be widened. “I was told it would be a strip they [the city] would need along Santa Fe,” Maksy… Read more »
Pittsburg can take over land before eminent domain decision: Contra Costa Times, 8/1/08
By Paul Burgarino Pittsburg’s Redevelopment Agency can acquire a three-acre piece of contaminated land near the waterfront before an eminent domain lawsuit is resolved, though it must deposit more money to proceed, a county Superior Court judge ruled this week. Judge Thomas Maddock affirmed a tentative ruling Friday that says the redevelopment agency is entitled… Read more »