https://www.seattle.gov/utilities/neighborhood-projects/street-edge-alternatives Features Seattle, Washington’s, Public Utilities SEA Streets Project. The site is full of progressive multi-use water harvesting, beautification, and flood-control strategies in the public rights-of-way. www.seattle.gov/...
How does government acquire the land it uses to install utilities or construct new roads? It exercises an authority that is called eminent domain. Eminent domain allows the government to take private property if it is for a “public use.” The phrase “public use” is contentious since, depen...