When you buy real estate, including in the form of a house and the land it sits on, it’s your private property to do with as you wish. As long as you follow local zoning and building code rules, you ...
For many homebuyers, an easement is anything but easy to understand. This legal term often surfaces during the title search, after your offer has been accepted. That’s when you may learn that someone ...
Six years ago, a woman who owns 18 acres southeast of Cottage Grove called me as president of LandWatch Lane County, a nonprofit land use watchdog, to ask if there was anything our group could do ...
A person interested in purchasing real property should always determine whether any easements burden or benefit the real property and the impact such easements have on the real property. An easement ...
In my last column, I discussed eminent domain and the rights of energy developers related to pipeline easements. I explained that there are situations in which developers can use eminent domain ...
Mansfield City Council voted Wednesday 7-1 to approve a conservation easement related to preserving old-growth trees at John ...
EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14) — El Paso officials are discussing a conservation easement for hundreds of acres of land in northeast El Paso. Knapp Land is already recognized as open space land, but the ...
The Navy and the Washington state Department of Natural Resources have agreed to create a restrictive easement along Hood Canal's eastern shoreline with the goal of preventing encroachment upon ...