RTD buying unneeded land to satisfy UP deal

The agency must pay $15 million for 300 overpriced acres in Weld County even though the railroad’s relocation is dead.
By Jeffrey Leib
The Denver Post
Article Last Updated: 05/06/2008 11:34:05 PM MDT
 
RTD is paying nearly $15 million for about 300 acres of Weld County farmland it doesn’t need.
The Regional Transportation District arranged to buy the land as [...]

Getting a rotten deal?

In RTD condemnations, is current
Peter Marcus, DDN Staff Writer
Monday, May 5, 2008
Property owners facing condemnation proceedings if they don’t accept offers by the Regional Transportation District say they’re getting a rotten deal considering the collapsing economy and expectations of future, long-term growth.
While RTD says it is playing by the books and running a completely [...]

Truth and reality are strangers to RTD

Letter to the editor
Wednesday, March 26, 2008

DEAR EDITOR: Ms. [Kate] Melvin is correct (in the column “RTD must be stopped in their tracks — fast,” March 24, Denver Daily News). 
RTD and truth/reality are strangers. They are not supposed to use eminent domain for any purpose but to acquire right of way. 
Let the developers pay [...]

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HB 1278 has been resurrected in it’s original form and will be up for debate in the Senate very shortly. Please take the time to write the following legislators and express your support for private property rights.
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Attorney for RTD agrees to complete ethics course

By Kevin Flynn
Thursday, April 10, 2008
An attorney handling condemnation cases for RTD’s FasTracks West Corridor has agreed to take an ethics course to settle a complaint that he took the lucrative contract after first doing work for one of the landowners being condemned.
The terms of the agreement with the Colorado Supreme Court Attorney Regulation Counsel [...]

Miffed land owner may seek RTD post

By Kevin Flynn, Friday, March 7, 2008
One aggrieved property owner facing condemnation for FasTracks is adopting “If you can’t beat them, join them” as a political slogan.
Steve Fesch, who owns land near Invesco Field that RTD says it needs for the West Corridor light-rail project, told a FasTracks public meeting Thursday night that he’s running for [...]

I’m running for RTD Board of Directors.

I’m officially announcing my candidacy of the RTD Board of Directors. I’m a Denver native who is fed up with budget problems and mismanagement of RTD. It just so happens I’m also a land owner being threatened with Eminent Domain at the Decatur light rail station.
 
The voters of approved the Fast Tracks project at a [...]

HB 1278

The amended version of HB 1278 has been posted on the Colorado General Assembly website.
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Rally protests abuse of eminent domain

By John C. Ensslin
Monday, February 18, 2008
About 90 people, several of whom have been on the blunt end of condemnation proceedings, rallied under snowy skies in Civic Center on Sunday to hold a tailgate party against what they see as government abuse of eminent domain.
They spoke about cases in Commerce City, Boulder, Lakewood and [...]