Eminent Domain. Church. Texas. Competing Constitutional Rights + Compensation Dispute.

Where in Texas is a church facing potential eminent domain situation?  Longview

What is the discrepancy in compensation?

• The city offered offered $1,049.50
• An appraiser has appraised the value of the land to be taken at  $71,209.00

What trends have been happening with eminent domain & churches?

• The City of Houston in 2015 backed away from a plan to include a church in an eminent domain qualifying housing project
• Courts in Kentucky have said that the church’s 1st amendment rights trump a government’s ability to use the 5th amendment to take private property.

KXXV TV 25 | Church owners resist Longview taking by eminent domain