Project Types
Rail, transit, airport and port work, and the property questions each raises beyond the roadway.
Not every transportation acquisition is a road. Florida 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.
The short answer
Corridor projects raise questions about severance and crossing. Facility projects raise questions about what happens to the land you keep nearby. Both are answered through the same full compensation standard.
Long corridors crossing parcels.
Read moreHarm to land divided by a corridor.
Read moreCrossings closed or relocated.
Read moreValue of the land beside a new line.
Read moreSites reshaped by a station or terminal.
Read moreTrading affected by construction and access change.
Read moreWhere a corridor divides a holding, the presence or absence of a crossing changes the value of everything on the far side.
An easement excluding your use entirely is worth far more than one permitting continued crossing or cultivation.
Effects on the land you keep belong in the severance analysis where they reduce its value.
A temporary construction easement has a term, and the disruption during that term has a value, particularly to a business.
The compensation principles are the same. The practical questions differ, because a corridor usually divides land rather than trimming its frontage.
Bodies exercising condemnation authority in Florida do so under powers granted by the legislature, and every acquisition must serve a public purpose under Article X section 6.
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, inverse condemnation is the route owners use.
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