Word: eminentance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Councillor Daniel J. Hayes, rebounding from a decision that Cambridge cannot now legally seize the MTA Yards by the power of eminent domain, ordered that the City investigate the possibility of taking the property "for urban renewal" as soon at the MTA announces an intention to sell.
Cambridge lacks the authority to take the Bennett St. MTA Yards by the eminent domain," the Cambridge City Manager told the City Council .
Cambridge City Councillors have often spoken against any action that would keep the Yards off the tax rolls. But not until early last month did the Council move to take over the land by legislative action. A bill introduced by Councillor Daniel J. Hayes called on the City Manager to...
University officials, of course, immediately checked with legal experts and relaxed, for they discovered that Hayes' proposal neglected the fact that Cambridge has no clear authority to take the Yards from the MTA by eminent domain. Massachusetts cities derive the power of eminent domain from the commonwealth; as a State...
Now when Haves introduced his bill, he claimed that he was simply following a precedent set by Boston when its Redevelopment Authority took over the land on which Prudential Insurance is building at the moment. Hayes knew that Boston had obtained the land by eminent domain; he did not know...