Article: Taking for access road held for public purpose. (Eminent Domain).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a municipality's condemnation of part of a landowners property to provide access to an adjoining parcel was for a public purpose and did not abuse the power of eminent domain (Township of West Orange v. 769 Associates, LLC, No. A-45-01, June 20, 2002).

769 Associates owns a parcel of land on Northfield Avenue in West Orange, improved with an office building and a parking lot that serves the building tenants. Nordan Realty Corp. owns a 46.5-acre tract of land behind the 769 Associates parcel, about 2000 feet back from Northfield Avenue. It proposed to build a 95-house subdivision on the land, "Northfield ...

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