Show 0538: Eminent Domain
Air Date: September 25, 2005

Eminent Domain

In June 2005, the U.S. Supreme court ruled that a city has the right to take private property to increase an area’s economic development. Essentially allowing government to favor those uses that would provide the highest tax revenues. And that has farm groups concerned that this ruling will allow government entities to eat up farmland under the guise of economic development. Oklahoma lawmakers are now looking at legislation that would make such a move much harder.