House Minority Leader Skip Stam is sponsoring HB 384: Fuquay-Varina Quick Take, which will be heard in the Committee on Finance meeting tomorrow.
JLF legal dude Daren Bakst has discussed these issues (and this bill) at length. Daren says,
Rep. Stam’s bill, instead of getting rid of this abuse, would expand it so that the town of Fuquay-Varina could use the same quick take authority that the Department of Transportation has–so much for property rights.
Indeed, Fuquay-Varina officials desperately want to expand their municipal empire. Rep. Stam is feeding their “manifest destiny” mentality as F-V city limits creep east down highway 42 into unincorporated areas like Willow Spring (where I live) and into areas adjacent to the town of Holly Springs and the mighty empire of Cary.
Pragmatism over principles – must be an NC Republican!
P.S. I’ll be voting for the other guy.
