{"id":3720,"date":"2007-04-25T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3720"},"modified":"2017-11-29T13:53:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T19:53:09","slug":"small-setforward-for-property-owners-in-missouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/25\/small-setforward-for-property-owners-in-missouri\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Setforward For Property Owners In Missouri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Missouri appellate court has ruled that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/419ABB6FAF39D417862572C7005C446C?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">blight isn&#8217;t a magic word<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An appellate court ruled this morning that Centene Plaza Redevelopment Corp. should be barred from using condemnation to acquire properties in the heart of Clayton for its $210-million twin towers, office and retail complex.<\/p>\n<p>   In an unsigned opinion, Judges Clifford H. Ahrens, Mary K. Hoff and Nannette Baker of the Missouri Court of Appeals stopped short of pulling the economic plug on the project and overruling a lower court decision authorizing condemnation.<\/p>\n<p>   Instead, the appeals judges sent the matter to the Missouri Supreme Court &#8220;because of the general interest and importance of the issues in this case.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center>. . . .<\/center><\/p>\n<p>The appellate court concluded, however,  that a study by a planning firm, PGAV, <b>suggesting the area was blighted was insufficient evidence for city aldermen to make the blighting determination.<\/b> [Emphasis Added]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This case will make it to the Missouri Supreme Court, so the matter isn&#8217;t yet settled, but it&#8217;s good to see that someone in the system doesn&#8217;t think blight is a big bucket of paint with which you can coat anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Missouri appellate court has ruled that blight isn&#8217;t a magic word: An appellate court ruled this morning that Centene Plaza Redevelopment Corp. should be barred from using condemnation to acquire properties in the heart of Clayton for its $210-million twin towers, office and retail complex. In an unsigned opinion, Judges Clifford H. Ahrens, Mary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missouri","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18126,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions\/18126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}