Acquisition of Land Key to Plans
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By Karen Robinson, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Dec. 11--A critical issue in the East Aurora School District's $24 million capital project proposal is acquiring 5.2 acres of vacant land owned by Fisher-Price that the district insists it must have to expand Parkdale Elementary School.
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By By Mariecar Mendoza, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Sep. 12--In a move possibly without precedent, the Arroyo Grande City Council might take a contentious housing tract proposal out of planners' hands and decide itself whether it moves forward.
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By David Sneed, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Dec. 8--The City of San Luis Obispo and local land conservationists have raised the money needed to preserve more than 700 acres of land that will expand the city's greenbelt.
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By Scott Hiaasen, The Miami Herald  Mar. 13--Another patch of Biscayne Bay real estate. Another plan to build homes in the water.   Months after the state paid $7.2 million for six acres of bay muck, a Miami real-estate broker bought the muck next door.
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By Bangor Daily News, Maine  Sep. 16--The state's effort to acquire land around Katahdin Lake, specifically a parcel north of the lake for hunters, has hit a snag, and hunting and snowmobiling advocates are suggesting that the whole arrangement should be reconsidered, even scuttled.
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By Claudia Mel, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep. 15--It's a commonly held view that farm property owners, left to their own devices, would want their land to be zoned as residential so they could reap the benefits of asking for higher prices for it.
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A divided Loudoun County Board of Supervisors voted yesterday to start preliminary talks on a developer's plan to build a subdivision on county parkland in return for tens of millions of dollars in road improvements and a smaller park nearby.
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By Tran, Tu-Uyen  With business booming in Grand Forks' lndustrial Park economic development experts are seeing the need for better streets and, in the long run, more land.
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Â· Access to the shore is a birthright, says minister  Â· Royals among landowners targeted for negotiations
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By Andre Briscoe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Dec. 12--Del Rey Oaks residents will have another month to examine initial plans for future development on former Fort Ord property that the soon fall under city control.
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By Shanna Hogan, The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.  Sep. 5--Conservationists spent more than a year gathering 300,000 signatures to get an initiative on the November ballot that would preserve 694,000 acres of state trust land.
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By Review, Idaho Business  The title of the proposition: "Initiative limiting eminent domain when used for economic development; defining land use law; and permitting just compensation for regulatory takings." The measure will be on ballots statewide in November.
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By Josh Mitchell, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 6--A plan for Baltimore County to buy parkland next to a high school on the east side won approval of the County Council last night.
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By Brandon Formby, The Dallas Morning News  Feb. 3--By all accounts, the large tract of land is a real estate gem that holds boundless development potential for a city that could use a boost in commercial property and retail sales taxes.
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Peasants want to own their land and have organized rallies in several provinces. More are planned.
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By Lawrence Latane Iii, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Feb. 10--King William County authorities and Newport News Waterworks next week will begin raising the delicate issue of acquiring thousands of acres of private land for a proposed water reservoir.
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This deal is not cheap, but it provides some critical assets.