Excess Condemnation: A Report of the Committee on Taxation of the City of New York1915 - Eminent domain - 122 pages |
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... interest in this respect . The writer is indebted to Mr. Louis Roth for the following paragraphs : " The ownership of suburban areas in German cities is frequently subdivided into such small strips among peasant proprietors that a ...
... interest in this respect . The writer is indebted to Mr. Louis Roth for the following paragraphs : " The ownership of suburban areas in German cities is frequently subdivided into such small strips among peasant proprietors that a ...
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... interests in the community . The aims of excess condemnation are something more than mere pecuniary profit . Its conducement to civic beauty by regulating the elevations and facades of buildings , its promotion and encouragement of ...
... interests in the community . The aims of excess condemnation are something more than mere pecuniary profit . Its conducement to civic beauty by regulating the elevations and facades of buildings , its promotion and encouragement of ...
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... interests have proved heavy charges on the Council . The Massachusetts Committee on Eminent Domain thoroughly discussed this point : 66 Whenever a public authority takes land by compulsory powers under the Lands Clauses Consolidation ...
... interests have proved heavy charges on the Council . The Massachusetts Committee on Eminent Domain thoroughly discussed this point : 66 Whenever a public authority takes land by compulsory powers under the Lands Clauses Consolidation ...
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... interests . It has been objected , however , that this would involve a consider- able loss of interest , for many years in ... interest charges thus incurred . Trade interests may be injuriously affected by an improvement either by the ...
... interests . It has been objected , however , that this would involve a consider- able loss of interest , for many years in ... interest charges thus incurred . Trade interests may be injuriously affected by an improvement either by the ...
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... interest at the rate pound 5 per cent . per annum from the time of entering on the lands until the purchase money or ... interests have been created for the purpose of obtaining increased compensation there seems no doubt , but to prove ...
... interest at the rate pound 5 per cent . per annum from the time of entering on the lands until the purchase money or ... interests have been created for the purpose of obtaining increased compensation there seems no doubt , but to prove ...
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abutting acquired acquisition of title act see Appendix additional lands additional real property adjacent adjoining adopted amount Andrew Young appeal Assembly of Maryland authorized awards benefit boundaries cent Clare Market clearance Commission commissioners Committee Commonwealth or city compensation constitutional amendment court damages decree Delancey Street dwellings Eminent Domain erected excess condemnation excess lands excess takings filing highway or street History of London Housing increased value interest JOHN PURROY MITCHEL Joseph Chamberlain land taken lease London County Council London Street Improvements lots Massachusetts ment Metropolitan Board municipality National Municipal League obtained owner parcel parkways persons Photographed 1915 playgrounds plots power of excess premises proceeding proposed public place public reservations purchase purpose real property required recoupment rehousing remnants rents residue restrictions road scheme section five slum demolition sold square feet surplus land thoroughfare tion town unearned increment unsanitary areas vested widening York
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Page 98 - This Act shall take effect immediately. STATE OF NEW YORK, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE. I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of said original law.
Page 90 - The legislature may authorize cities to take more land and property than is needed for actual construction in the laying out, widening, extending or relocating parks, public places, highways or streets...
Page 45 - working class " includes mechanics, artisans, labourers, and others working for wages ; hawkers, costermongers, persons not working for wages, but working at some trade or handicraft without employing others, except members of their own family, and persons other than domestic servants whose income in any case does not exceed an average of thirty shillings a week, and the families of any of such persons who may be residing with them.
Page 85 - ... and after the establishment, layout, and completion of such improvements, may convey any such real estate thus acquired and not necessary for such improvements, with reservations concerning the future use and occupation of such real estate, so as to protect such public works and improvements, and their environs, and to preserve the view, appearance, light, air, and usefulness of such public works.
Page 27 - When any question of disputed compensation by this or the special Act, or any Act incorporated therewith, authorized or required to be settled by arbitration, shall have arisen, then, unless both parties shall concur in the appointment of a single arbitrator...
Page 91 - A municipality appropriating or otherwise acquiring property for public use may in furtherance of such public use appropriate or acquire an excess over that actually to be occupied by the improvement, and may sell such excess with such restrictions as shall be appropriate to preserve the improvement made. Bonds may be issued to supply the funds in whole or in part, to pay for the excess property so appropriated or otherwise acquired, but said bonds shall be a lien only against the property so acquired...
Page 90 - The legislature may by special acts for the purpose of laying out, widening or relocating highways or streets, authorize the taking in fee by the Commonwealth, or by a county, city or town, of more land and property than are needed for the actual construction...
Page 42 - ... due regard being had to the nature and then condition of the property and the probable duration of the buildings in their existing state, and to the state of repair thereof...
Page 91 - The State, or any of its cities or counties, may acquire by gift, purchase or condemnation, lands for establishing, laying out, widening, enlarging, extending, and maintaining memorial grounds, streets, squares, parkways and reservations in and about and along and leading to any or all of the same...
Page 87 - ... in order to protect such public parks, parkways, and playgrounds, their environs, the preservation of the view, appearance, light, air, health, and usefulness thereof...