U.S 70 Bypass Opens in Goldsboro, NC

On June 3, 2016 residents around the Goldsboro, NC area woke up to the opening of the final leg of the Goldsboro Bypass. The Goldsboro Bypass is one part of a larger North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) initiative called the US 70 Corridor Project. The U.S 70 Corridor is one of the primary east-west…

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NC Supreme Court Issues Landmark Ruling in Favor of Land Owners

The Transportation Corridor Official Map Act has caused frustration and hardship for many North Carolina landowners for more than two decades. Since 1989, the Map Act has given the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) the right to impose indefinite restrictions on the use of property that falls within the boundaries of future highway bypass…

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Attorney Anne Duvoisin Publishes Article on Land Condemnation for the American Bar Association

Henson Fuerst Land Condemnation partner Anne Duvoisin had a recent article published by the American Bar Association for her coverage of the Sabal Pipeline litigation in Florida. Sabal Trail Transmission project is a natural gas pipeline that would cover over 33 miles of land from southwestern Alabama through Georgia and Florida. While this case involves…

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Pender County Commissioners Hire Lobbyist

More Hampstead Bypass updates in the news:  Pender County Commissioners have now hired a lobbyist to push for the bypass with state lawmakers in an attempt to get the stalled project moving forward.  This will not come soon enough for landowners who are affected by the proposed bypass under the North Carolina Map Act (Transportation…

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Hampstead Bypass Low Priority, But Landowners Still Wait

Landowners affected by the Hampstead Bypass continue to be stuck in no-mans-land, and it does not appear that the situation is likely to change in the near future. Will the project be funded or won’t it?  Sometimes the answer appears to be yes, sometimes maybe, and sometimes no. And in all this indecision, landowners are…

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Highway 70 a Priority for NC DOT

According to a Facebook post by Atlantic Beach, the U.S. 70 corridor has been designated as a high-priority future interstate on the National Highway System. The future interstate projects include the Gallants Channel Bridge, the Kinston Bypass, the Havelock Bypass, and James City. Read more here: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10153621377897794&id=335837552793

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Hampstead Bypass NOT a Funding Priority

Land owners in Pender County who are in the path of the Transportation Corridor Official Map (the North Carolina Map Act) remain in limbo, per NC DOT and local Pender County elected officials under the recently updated State Transportation Improvement Plan. According to an article on WECT: Neither one of the segments for the Hampstead…

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Families Wait to Hear Home Status in Asheboro Bypass Project

This recent story featuring Henson & Fuerst, P.A. clients shows the emotional toll and cost that many land owners struggle with in land condemnation cases. According to the story on MyFox8.com: A Randolph County couple is waiting to hear whether they will have to give up their home as part of the construction of the…

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Bad Decision Reversal for Johnson County

The CSX Carolina Connector is a railway company looking to build a major rail terminal in Johnson County. The private company is threatening to use the power of Eminent Domain to take land from county residents, claiming a “greater good.” Including the “greater good” of making lots of money for CSX. We see this kind of thing…

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Continuing Drama with the Hampstead Bypass in NC

The NC DOT continues to hold land owners in limbo and we’re as upset about this as you are. The Transportation Corridor Official Map for the Hampstead Bypass was filed in 2011, and land owners have been stuck ever since.  The NC Supreme Court (in the case of Kirby v. NCDOT) is currently deliberating the…

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