Rail, transit, port and airport work, and the property questions each raises beyond the roadway.
Not every transportation acquisition is a road. Virginia acquires property for passenger and freight rail improvements, transit corridors and stations, port expansion and airport work, and the effects on neighbouring land differ from a highway widening.
Rail and transit takings often run as long narrow corridors. Port and airport projects tend to take whole parcels and then influence a much wider area through noise, height limits and traffic.
Long corridors crossing parcels.
Read moreRemaining propertyDamage to the residue beside a new line.
Read moreEasementsThe rights a corridor actually carries.
Read moreLost accessCrossings closed or relocated.
Read moreCommercial propertySites reshaped by a station or terminal.
Read moreAgricultural propertyFields divided by a rail or transit corridor.
Read moreWhere a corridor divides a holding, the presence or absence of a crossing changes the value of everything on the far side.
A corridor easement that excludes your use entirely is worth far more than one that permits grazing or crossing.
Effects on the land you keep belong in the damage to the residue analysis where they reduce its value.
Fencing, drainage and vegetation obligations should be written down rather than assumed.
The compensation principles are the same. The practical questions differ, because a rail corridor usually divides land rather than trimming its frontage.
Bodies exercising condemnation authority in Virginia do so under powers the General Assembly has granted. Article I Section 11 still requires the condemnor to prove public use, without a presumption in its favour.
Where no part of your property is taken, the position is different and narrower. If the project has physically taken or damaged your property without a proceeding, that is the territory of inverse condemnation.
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