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Threat of eminent domain made them sell — now Renton family wants justice

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John Houston remembers an almost idyllic childhood growing up on his family’s land in the eastern Renton highlands, with his days spent wandering the woods and taking care of the family’s pigs, chickens and cows. It all went away when he was 15, when his parents sold the 10-acre lot to the Renton School District (RSD). Houston said the 1968 sale was made under coercion, with the district threatening his parents with eminent domain.

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Threat of eminent domain made them sell — now Renton family wants justice

John Houston remembers an almost idyllic childhood growing up on his family’s land in the eastern Renton highlands, with his days spent wandering the woods and taking care of the family’s pigs, chickens and cows. It all went away when he was 15, when his parents sold the 10-acre lot to the Renton School District (RSD). Houston said the 1968 sale was made under coercion, with the district threatening his parents with eminent domain.

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Bill aims at eminent domain reform

A bill has targeted eminent domain laws in Kansas as a Barton County landowner awaits a decision on a taking affecting construction of Grain Belt Express’s electric transmission line.

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