Another Side of Eminent Domain
At Solberg Airport in Readington, NJ, a small, family-owned, public-use general aviation facility, we are experiencing the more nefarious side of eminent domain.
Eminent domain historically assisted the development of airports through land acquisition that made possible the necessary improvements to safety and utility; now, the expanding application of eminent domain to control land use threatens to crumble the very aviation infrastructure it helped to build.
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