The North Carolina Department of Transportation is paying $19.1 million to settle a claim by a Wake County family whose land was seized for a major highway project under the now-defunct Map Act, the family’s attorneys report. George Autry, Stephanie ...
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A Wake County family whose land was seized to make way for construction of the Southern Wake Expressway will receive $3.25 million from the North Carolina Department of Transportation, almost four times as much as the DOT initially offered, ...
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A trial judge has sanctioned the North Carolina Department of Transportation for failing to meet court-ordered deadlines for appraising Map Act properties and acting with “reckless indifference, gross negligence and bad faith.” Forsyth County Superior Court Judge John ...
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Read More »A real estate developer that had hoped to convert a 30.3-acre property in Indian Trail into a mixed-used shopping center and office complex has reached a $1.85 million settlement with the North Carolina Department of Transportation after the DOT condemned ...
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation has lost yet another appeal in the Map Act litigation, which has dragged on for two decades and is costing taxpayers millions of dollars in legal fees. In delivering the latest defeat, ...
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation’s so-called “bonus value” approach to determining fair compensation proved to be a misnomer — and a potentially costly mistake — in a condemnation case involving a roadside billboard in Charlotte. The DOT had instructed ...
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Read More »The North Carolina Department of Transportation will pay $8.6 million to compensate a Union County manufacturer for taking half an acre of highway access earmarked for the Monroe Bypass, an attorney for the manufacturer reports. McGee Corporation, based in ...
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation cannot sidestep liability when another agency has used the Map Act to freeze development on properties in the path of proposed road projects, the state Court of Appeals has ruled. The unpublished decision in ...
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While representing a property owner in an eminent domain case, two experienced land condemnation lawyers in Raleigh alleged that they had discovered that a prolific real estate appraiser for the North Carolina Department of Transportation based his cost estimate on ...
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Now that the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s effort to save the Map Act has reached a dead end at the state Supreme Court, the next question is how many millions of dollars will the agency have to pay to ...
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