10-08-2015, 09:39 AM
(10-08-2015, 09:33 AM)insider Wrote: Nothing interesting to note?
Since you asked...
Region still negotiating LRT expropriation deals
Quote:Coun. Tom Galloway, who chairs the committee overseeing the light rail project, said the negotiations are not holding up construction, which started this year. "There's a lot of expropriations that aren't settled but the expropriation has taken place and the project can move forward," he said.
Settlements have been offered to each of the property owners as part of the expropriation process but Debra Arnold, regional solicitor, did not answer how many are still being negotiated...
Former regional chair hopeful Jay Aissa is one such property owner who has not yet settled with the region.
The two sides continue to negotiate over a sliver of his commercial property on Northfield Drive. "We are in discussions with this property owner and its legal counsel in an effort to reach a mutually agreeable settlement on compensation for the partial expropriation at this subject property," Arnold said.
Aissa was issued an expropriation notice from the region mid-2013, Arnold said, for a partial taking of land in front of his Jay Fencing business...