This Texas State Representative Describes Eminent Domain as driven by…

Cecil Bell believes eminent domain reform is a “constituent-driven dialogue”

His concern about eminent domain: ” got to do a better job as a state in trying to figure out how to balance between the intended very limited use of eminent domain and processes like that and where we find it being used today”

Let’s diagram State Representative Bell’s eminent domain concern:

• The big bad: how eminent domain is being used today is not balanced & the eminent domain scales are tipped against constituents
• The good use of eminent domain: very limited
• Where the legislative fixes appear: what entities can use eminent domain + the process of how eminent domain takings happen

Houston Chronicle | Villager Q & A: Local state lawmaker Cecil Bell Jr.