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As reported yesterday by Pacific Business News (“HART acquired 34 properties for $70M along Honolulu rail transit route, new report says“), “[t]he Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation has acquired 34 properties totaling about $70.2 million thus far along the 20-mile rail transit route, including the recent purchase of a former sports bar property near Ala Moana Center for about $1.35 million.” 

In other words, it’s begun. 

In response to the many questions we’ve received from property owners, businesses. and homeowners whose rights may be at stake in the rail takings, we’ve organized a public forum to provide information about the project, Hawaii’s eminent domain process, and  how to protect the rights of people whose property or businesses are subject to acquisition. 

Details:

More information here…

Continue Reading Tommorrow’s Public Rail Project Forum: Eminent Domain, Just Compensation, And Protecting Property Rights

Although we just wrapped this year’s ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation and Condemnation 101 conferences, we’ve already started to think about the 2016 programs. 

Those of you who attended this year or have attended in the past, please watch your email inboxes in the next few days for an informal survey from ALI-CLE, asking for your thoughts about the 2016 location, and asking for input on topics you’d like to see covered on the agenda. Be sure to respond without delay, as the earlier we can lock down the date and location, the sooner we can start making concrete plans.

Of course, you can always just email me with your suggestions for venue city and agenda topics. Charleston, SC? Austin, TX? Miami, FL? You don’t need to have attended in the past — we also want to hear from those who have never attended an ALI-CLE conference…

Continue Reading Your Thoughts On The Venue And Topics For 2016’s ALI-CLE Eminent Domain Conference?

If you are a “public agency staff, an appraiser, or a right-of-way consultant” (or, we presume, a lawyer) in California, check this out: a free half-day seminar on eminent domain issues in Costa Mesa on Thursday, March 5, 2015, presented by the Nossaman law firm, the guys who produce the California Eminent Domain Report blog. 

Topics on the agenda: “Eminent Domain: Another Path to CEQA Challenges,” “Design-Build Project and Right of Way Acquisition,” “Public Projects and Business Losses: Who Gets What and When?,” and “Valuation, Cleanup Costs, and Other Scary Things: Acquiring Contaminated Property.”

Check it out and register here. 

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Continue Reading Californians: Upcoming Eminent Domain Seminar, March 5, 2015 (And It’s Free!)

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Here are the links from our opening sessions this morning:

It seems clear that the city and…

Continue Reading Links From Day Two, ALI-CLE Eminent Domain Conference

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Here are the cases which I spoke about this morning at the 2015 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation conference:

Here is our annual “proof of life” photo, the view from the dais. Proof…

Continue Reading ALI-CLE 2015 Eminent Domain Conference: Links From Today’s Presentation

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This could be your view, winging your way to San Francisco in a couple of weeks, to join us for the 2015 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference (and the concurrent Condemnation 101 program), at the Hotel Nikko, February 5-7, 2015. 

There’s still a few spaces left, and time to register. We’re the co-Planning Chair of the Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation program along with Joe Waldo, and we’ve assembled an exciting agenda, presented by a faculty comprised of the nation’s best-of-the-best in our field of law.

Winter in San Francisco is the one time of the year when you are likely to not be fogged in, and in addition to the 2 and a half days of programming, there are networking and social events so you can get to know your colleagues and the faculty better.

Please come and join us, if you…

Continue Reading Still Time To Join Us For The 2015 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain Programs In San Francisco

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Ben Kudo and David Callies, leading off

Professor Richard Epstein began the Hawaii Land Use Law Conference with the keynote presentation on “Stealth Takings: Exactions, Impact Fees, and More,” which was his usual comprehensive and non-stop takedown of takings law. 

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Our panel on Impact Fees and Exactions After Koontz followed, and here are the promised links and other materials which I mentioned:

Later today, I will also post up a recording of my short backgrounder on the exaction issue, to give you a flavor of the panel discussion (the Hawaii State Bar Assocation…

Continue Reading 2015 Hawaii Land Use Law Conference

Here’s the final program and faculty list for the 2015 Hawaii Land Use Conference, coming up Thursday and Friday, January 15-16, 2015, in downtown Honolulu.

This is the bi-annual gathering of Hawaii’s land use mavens, and this year’s program has two very special presenters. Storied lawprof Richard Epstein (perhaps more than a “mere mortal”) will be presenting the keynote talk on “Stealth Takings: Exactions, Impact Fees and More,” and our ABA colleague Patty Salkin, Dean of the Touro Law School, will get us our Ethics CLE credits with her usual exciting program on ethics topics. (As someone who has attended more than few of her presentations, we can report that it is worth the price of admission alone, and even though “ethics CLE” and “exciting” are words we usually do not associate with each other, Dean Salkin’s presentation is the exception.)

Our panel on “…

Continue Reading Still Time To Join Us For The 2015 Hawaii Land Use Conference (Jan. 15-16)

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Registration is now open for the 2015 Hawaii Land Use Law Conference, to be held in downtown Honolulu on Thursday-Friday, January 15-16, 2015.

This is the bi-annual conference, co-chaired by U. Hawaii lawprof David Callies and land use lawyer Ben Kudo, that brings together the big names in our area of law. In other words, the one conference you don’t want to miss if you are a Hawaii land use or property lawyer, in-house counsel, a planner, an appraiser, a property owner or manager, or a law student interested in these topics. 

Download the full brochure here, or view it below. 

The keynote speaker this year is lawprof Richard Epstein, addressing “Stealth Takings: Exactions, Impact Fees and More.” Immediately following his talk, I will be moderating a panel on “Impact Fees and Exactions After Koontz,” with colleagues Bruce Voss and David Brittin. The rest…

Continue Reading Registration Open: 2015 Hawaii Land Use Law Conference, Jan. 15-16, 2015