California Eminent Domain Law Blog

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

CIC project draws criticism from residents By Bethania Palma AZUSA – The city gave a water wholesaler rights to put a pipeline under the parking area of a housing complex, despite heavy opposition from the homeowners association. After a drawn-out battle between the Crystal Canyon Homeowners Association and Covina Irrigation Company over pipe placement, the… Read more »

Baldwin Park must extend eminent domain authority By Tania Chatila BALDWIN PARK – The City Council needs to pass a pair of amendments if it hopes to revitalize 125 acres of downtown real estate, officials said. The amendments, written by city staff, would extend Baldwin Park’s eminent domain authority for another 12 years in both… Read more »