Comments on: ECUA Seeks To Take Cantonment Property By Eminent Domain For Sewage Lift Station

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 23:31:47 +0000

Quote: “A letter from ECUA Board Chair Lois Benson states that ECUA has been unsuccessful in negotiations to acquire the property.”

That’s because ECUA just doesn’t want to pay top dollar for the property. They want to pay pennies on dollar. So they resort to Eminent Domain.

The owners should get paid top dollar for their property, and ECUA needs to pay them that. If ECUA doesn’t like it, too bad. Let them go elsewhere or cancel their project.

By: cb

cb — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 16:12:32 +0000

How much land are we talking about? What else is the individual going to do with it? If they buy only part, what will anyone want to do with the rest?

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 03:29:29 +0000

REGARDING:
” No, they will only get pennies on the $”

An assertion based on what proof?
(Unless you mean 100 pennies on the dollar.)

David for verification of reason for distrust

By: M in Bratt

M in Bratt — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 23:37:56 +0000

All of you genius quoters of the constitution should read it before you make up your own quotes. The constitution clearly allows the government to take property in the 5th amendment as follows; nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. Now, shut up and let’s build the new lift station. And to those that want to move the lift station somewhere else, lift stations are placed according to the geography of an area, they have to be placed at the bottom of hills so that gravity will take the sewage to them. This is probably the only logical place to put it, or the ECUA probably would move it rather than deal with on greedy land owner.

By: M in Bratt

M in Bratt — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 20:51:34 +0000

Eminent domain is one of the very necessary evils of government. Without eminent domain, most of the infrastructure, including; roads, bridges, drainage projects, dams, utility projects, and the list goes on and on would not exist. Even the Beulah bypass project would come to a halt because there will be some land owners that will not negotiate or budge on selling. The government is bound to pay fair market value for any property they take, but is not obligated to break the taxpayers by paying greatly inflated prices for any property.

By: Nod

Nod — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 19:08:00 +0000

do everywhere but no new lift station. Let us bring out the civilian militia and put a stop to the unlawful seizure of land. This is exactly why we have the second amendment.

By: Willis

Willis — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 14:13:10 +0000

Do away with the lift station.
Yogi and BooBoo never had one and they made it just fine.

Of course they were BEARS and we all know where they go.

By: KK

KK — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 12:54:51 +0000

Obviously ECUA has not offered fair market value for the property.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 10:20:08 +0000

David Hue Green, Do you really think they will be compensated the actual value of that property? No, they will only get pennies on the $

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 10:17:28 +0000

I wonder how many of you landowners will be so blase’ when they come for your land? No? That will be a different story. right?

The owner doesn’t want to. so why should they have it stolen from under them?
They do it once they will do it again.

Put your pitchforks and torches down and hear all the facts from BOTH sides.