Word: eminentance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Board advises the City Council to have the entire Harvard Square business district declared an urban renewal area, after which it says, Cambridge could take the Yards by right of eminent domain. Next, two blocks opposite the Treadway Motor House would be demolished to form a "super block," and...
Some of the limited proposals in the Board's report deserve to be taken seriously. Whatever is finally built on the MTA Yards, it is sure to bring more traffic into the Square, and the Boards ideas (which include a computer-controlled signal system) might ease its flow. The suggested...
In its report, filed last month, the Board advised the city to prepare a plan for urban renewal in the Harvard Square area and then to take the Yards by right of eminent domain. Although this is not possible while the MTA owns the land, the city could take the...
Deerfield was horrified. Home owners moved fast, voted overwhelming approval of a $500,000 bond issue for new city parks-laid out, as it just so happened, to include the 22 acres Milgram had bought for his development. Milgram refused to sell, so city officials applied their power of eminent...
Milgram sued, claiming that the city had violated the 14th Amendment by grabbing up land meant for integrated homes. The Illinois Supreme Court heard the case, turned Milgram down, saying: "The power of eminent domain cannot be made to depend upon the peculiar social, racial, religious or political predilections of...