Section 20 Preferential Setting in Certain Redevelopment Cases

• Library: Condemnation Practice 2009

When an affected property owner challenges a legislative determination that an area is blighted, substandard, or unsanitary, § 523.261, RSMo Supp. 2008, provides for the preferential setting of that challenge. A property owner can raise a challenge to the determination of blight either through a defense to the condemnation action or as a separate action for declaratory...