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Most people are understanding about buyout when it comes to projects like this. Usually eminent domain comes in when someone is asking twice or three times the market price because they know their property is on the path of a new road. Is that fair for someone to hold up a project and extort a state (and basically their neighbors who pay taxes) because they know they can?
No one who is working on the loop has even mentioned eminent domain. They are looking at many different routes right now in order to make the loop more effective, restrict the number of houses and properties that have to be acquired, and to hear what the people are willing to pay for.
By the way, congratulations, it looks like you are going to get your "quick fix". The Advocate is reporting that DOTD is going to use any surplus the state gives them next year (this year's surplus is going to widen I-10) to widening I-12 to Walker. Just don't complain about the traffic while they widen it.
So once again, how do we plan for the next twenty years?
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