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An informational public meeting regarding the new Highway 14 Realignment Project from Waseca to Owatonna and the West Beltline Project will be held at 7:00 pm on Monday, June 16th, at the Owatonna Public Library, 3rd floor, located at 105 North Elm Avenue in Owatonna.

Dan Biersdorf, of eminent domain firm Biersdorf & Associates, will be speaking at the meeting from a property owner's perspective. Biersdorf will give an overview of the eminent domain process, discuss property owner rights, talk about property valuation errors made by the MN Department of Transportation in relation to this project, and then open the floor to any questions that attendees may have.  Dan will be available to conduct case evaluations after the meeting.

Biersdorf is originally from Owatonna and attended Owatonna High School.  He has worked on eminent domain and other property valuation litigation cases nationwide for over 20 years.  His central office is located in Minneapolis.

The Minnesota Department of Transportation plans to realign Highway 14 from Waseca into the South Side of Owatonna.  This project will cross the new Owatonna West Beltline Project and continue East through the South side of Owatonna.

This project requires the DOT to acquire private property along Highway 14 and near 39th Avenue in Owatonna.  Offers are currently being made to affected property owners.

For more information about the meeting or the project itself, please contact Stacy Dreher or Dan Biersdorf at 612.339.7242 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

An informational public meeting regarding the US Highway 12 Bypass Project will be held at 3:00 pm on Thursday, April 24, at The Baraboo Public Library, located at 230 4th Avenue in Baraboo.

Dan Biersdorf, of eminent domain firm Biersdorf & Associates, will be speaking at the meeting from a property owner's perspective. Biersdorf will address frequently asked questions, give an overview of the eminent domain process, and then open the floor to any questions that attendees may have.

From Larraine Stanislaw, Michigan GAP Coalition:

In 2004, the Michigan Legislature passed a law (P.A. 495) placing new requirements on hundreds of businesses, and wiped out a whole industry of home-based businesses when the law took full affect in 2006. According to state records, 1,171 businesses were eliminated at that time. Some had served the public for over 20 years. These requirements were placed late in the legislative process into a bill funded by a powerful, politically connected special interest group that saw an opportunity to eliminate smaller competitors who couldn't meet the burdensome new requirements placed on them. It was discriminatory and arbitrary in its effect, and resulted in a regulatory taking of property by preventing property from being used the way it was prior to the law's passage.

An informational public meeting regarding the Cedar Grove Redevelopment Project will be held at 10:00am on Thursday, October 11th, at the Cedarvale Lanes at 3883 Cedar Grove Parkway.

Dan Biersdorf, of eminent domain firm Biersdorf & Associates, will be speaking at the meeting from a property owner's perspective. Biersdorf will address frequently asked questions, give an overview of the eminent domain process as it pertains to redevelopment projects, discuss the property valuation mistakes typically made by the condemning authority, and then open the floor to any questions that attendees may have.

An informational public meeting regarding the I-94 Interchange Reconstruction Projects will be held at 7:00 pm on Monday, July 30, at the YWCA of Racine located at 740 College Ave.

Dan Biersdorf, of eminent domain firm Biersdorf & Associates, will be speaking at the meeting from a property owner's perspective. Biersdorf will address frequently asked questions, give an overview of the eminent domain process, and then open the floor to any questions that attendees may have.

The previously scheduled informational public meeting regarding the Route 281 Project is re-scheduled for Tuesday, July 24th, 2007 held from 11am to 1pm at the YWCA located at 14 Clayton St. in Cortland.

Dan Biersdorf, of eminent domain firm Biersdorf & Associates, will be speaking at the meeting from a property owner's perspective. Biersdorf will address frequently asked questions, give an overview of the eminent domain process, and then open the floor to any questions that attendees may have.  He will be available to evaluate your case and make sit visits after the meeting.   A light lunch will be provided.

By Christine Laubenstein
Staff Reporter
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Biersdorf and Associates attorney, E. Kelly Keady, will be presenting at the Road and Access Law Seminar coordinated by the National Business Institute on June 13th, 2007.  E. Kelly Keady will draw from 10 years experience in eminent domain law to discuss current case law and provide legislative updates.

The City of Jamaica will be facilitating a public meeting for property owners affected by the Jamaica Redevelopment Project on May 23rd, 2007 at 10:00am at the Queens Library located at 89-11 Merrick Boulevard.  Property owners may express their views concerning the proposed Plan and the proposed acquisitions at this meeting.  Attorney Dan Biersdorf will be attending this meeting to speak about eminent domain and answer any questions property owners have.