I submit tons of easements to local and county agencies, the descriptions and exhibits are always reviewed and the drawings are required to be in State Plane so that they fall into the local and county GIS cartoons.
There are a lot of comments in this thread discussing ED. Some stating pennies on the dollar compensation and others somehow thinking that the affected property owners are all going to just lay down and resign themselves to the fact that the public agency was going to win and that's not always the case.
When I was a kid/young teen, there was a case where the NJDOT wanted to widen a state highway. At/near an intersection sat a local bar, Good Year tire store and a frozen custard stand where a jughandle was proposed. The owner of the bar also owned the tire store, and he was not having any part of selling his properties to the state for demolition. He was a feisty elderly man who was often featured on the National Geographic TV show on safari hunts. His name was Vernon Moses, and he fought the state off until the day that he died, over 10 years of litigation.
He defeated the State, but, in the end, his estate ended up selling the tire store property and forcing the NJDOT to do a redesign to save the bar in his honor. 50 years later that bar still stands and operates as a very successful and popular watering hole.
One more reason you have no fear of me ever moving to Washington, or Oregon, or California, or..............
Not to be beating a dead horse, but this summary of an eminent domain proceeding has come across my desk this morning. And this was for a simple corner cut off triangle at an intersection.
What's your point?
This case started on 4/5/2002 and the proceedings were completed on 10/2/2002.
That's 181 days.
One plaintiff *defendant* settled out of court, and the City of Beaverton prevailed on a Default Judgment against the other.
Judge Nachtigal retired on 9/1/2013 and Judge McElligott died on 12/21/2012.