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December 13, 2005
Council Likely To Call for Stiffer Eminent Domain Restriction
The NY Sun
by Russell Berman
The City Council is expected to pass a pair of resolutions next week urging the state to impose stiffer restrictions on the use of eminent domain.
The resolutions offered by a council member from Brooklyn, Letitia James, are heading to a full vote after winning approval yesterday from the council’s State and Federal Legislation Committee. The measures express the council’s support for two state bills — one each in the Assembly and the Senate — that would mandate a local review process before government could, by asserting a public interest, take control of private property.
Posted by lumi at December 13, 2005 7:36 AM