Archive for the 'Highest and Best Use' Category

Highest & Best Use – Access Taken / No Land: New Hanover County

In this 2007 condemnation action, the NCDOT did not take any land from the property owner.  Instead, the taking consisted of four (4) contract access points along a Martin Luther King, Jr. Parkway in Wilmington, North Carolina.  The NCDOT’s initial deposit of $2,375,200 was subsequently increased by $2,298,947 for total deposit of $4,674,147.  Two weeks [...]

Highest and Best Use: Wake County

This case involved appraisal, wetlands, and other land use issues.  Raleigh North Carolina Eminent Domain Attorney, Emmett Boney Haywood, represented the property owners in the NCDOT’s taking of a portion of the property for the construction of the Wake Forest (NC 98) Bypass.  The initial offer by the NCDOT was $409,785.00.  The project split the [...]