Project Types
Rail, transit, airport and port work, and the property questions each raises beyond the roadway.
Not every transportation acquisition is a road. North Carolina acquires property for passenger and freight rail, transit corridors and stations, airport expansion and port work, and the effects on neighbouring land differ from a highway widening.
Rail and transit takings often run as long narrow corridors. Airport and port projects tend to take whole parcels and then influence a much wider area through noise, height limits and traffic.
Two different patterns. Corridor projects raise questions about severance and crossing. Facility projects raise questions about what happens to the land you keep nearby.
Long corridors crossing parcels.
Read moreValue of the land beside a new line.
In preparationCrossings closed or relocated.
Read moreFields divided by a corridor.
Read moreSites reshaped by a station or terminal.
Read moreWhat North Carolina pays for.
Read moreWhere a corridor divides a holding, the presence or absence of a crossing changes the value of everything on the far side. That belongs in the before and after analysis.
An easement that excludes your use entirely is worth far more than one permitting grazing or crossing.
Effects on the land you keep belong in the remainder valuation where they reduce its value.
These obligations should be written into the document rather than assumed.
The valuation principles are the same. The practical questions differ, because a rail corridor usually divides land rather than trimming its frontage.
It depends on the condemnor. A regional transportation authority is an other public condemnor under section 40A-3(c) and runs under Chapter 40A. The Department of Transportation runs under Chapter 136 Article 9.
Where no part of your property is taken the position is narrower. If a public body has physically taken or damaged your property without a proceeding, that is the inverse condemnation route.
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