In Penn Township, Pennsylvania, residents and town officials recently have been using a phrase that some think consists of dirty words: eminent domain. With 15 properties affected by an upcoming road project, the town has hired a service to appraise the needed portion...
Zoning board to review development
The Philadelphia Zoning Board of Adjustment soon will review plans for 32 housing units that a developer wants to build on the site of the shuttered Ivy Ridge nursing home.The developer has been working with the Wissahickon Neighbors Civic Association since January...
Pa. woman sues bank, others over home purchase
A Scranton, Pennsylvania, woman and a bank are embroiled in a residential real estate dispute over a home the woman says she owns and the bank says she legally doesn't.The case began four years ago when the woman bought a brand new townhome and took out a loan of...
Gas, oil companies claiming eminent domain powers
Oil and gas companies are being allowed in locations across the country to take private properties through the power of eminent domain, even though they are private industries. Eminent domain generally is reserved for the taking of land for the public good.That could...
