By Lindsay Marchello Carolina Journal News Service The Map Act’s days may be numbered. State senators voted June 12 to repeal the Map Act, the law allowing the N.C. Department of Transportation to freeze development on property within a highway corridor. ...
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After waiting since the 1990s for the North Carolina Department of Transportation to pay for taking their homes, businesses and other properties through Map Act filings, hundreds of residents are going to have to wait a little longer. But the ...
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The North Carolina Supreme Court is expected to hear the state Department of Transportation’s challenge of a landmark Court of Appeals opinion centered on the Map Act next month. The Kirby decision will affect hundreds of property owners throughout the ...
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation is shelling out tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars a month to outside law firms that are helping the agency handle a flurry of lawsuits over the state’s use of the Map Act and ...
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See related story on proposed legislation that would change or repeal the Map Act. A group of property owners who are beating the North Carolina Department of Transportation in a high-stakes fight over the Map Act have asked the Supreme ...
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A group of Republican state lawmakers are pushing legislation that would repeal the Map Act, a unique and controversial law that saves the state money on road projects but which opponents say devastates communities and causes homeowners heartache. “I wanted ...
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Lawmakers are considering a bill that would make the North Carolina Department of Transportation pay for offering unfairly low buyout prices to property owners facing condemnation. The legislation proposes several changes that state condemnation lawyers “have been waiting and wishing ...
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For Winston-Salem lawyer Matthew Bryant, the recent North Carolina Court of Appeals decision that holds the state Department of Transportation liable for misusing the Map Act was an I-told-you-so moment six years in the making. Bryant sent a letter in ...
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