{"id":974,"date":"2018-07-02T16:58:39","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T16:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rightofway.law\/?p=974"},"modified":"2018-12-08T22:28:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T22:28:41","slug":"welcome-to-rightofway-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rightofway.law\/welcome-to-rightofway-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to RightOfWay.Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><span class=\"fusion-dropcap dropcap dropcap-boxed\" style=\"border-radius:50%;\">F<\/span>or those countries with high standards of living, infrastructure plays a major part in allowing that standard of living. \u00a0For developing countries, infrastructure is a critical element in improving quality of life.\u00a0 However, improvements to infrastructure\u2014and the associated standard of living\u2014come with a price.\u00a0 Creating better, bigger, and more infrastructure requires making some accommodations, including through the occasional involuntary acquisition of property. The right-of-way profession frequently bears the brunt of public frustration over this necessary sacrifice. \u00a0Right-of-way professionals help provide services that the public demands, and then often suffer public and\/or personal backlash when property is acquired or the project moves into construction.<\/p>\n<p>It would be beneficial to all involved, from the agencies building the infrastructure down to every displaced landowner, if the process were more transparent and better understood.\u00a0 Unfortunately, major media focus on the negative, i.e. \u201cif it bleeds it leads.\u201d They omit facts to heighten public interest and rarely if ever explain the right of way process. They often imply, and even sometimes directly state, that the property is being \u201cstolen\u201d by eminent domain, when people familiar with the process know that the property is not being stolen in any way shape or form.<\/p>\n<p>This blog is dedicated to observing and commenting on issues and developments within the right-of -way industry and providing an objective presentation of a condemning authority\u2019s perspective on timely topics.\u00a0 We hope that readers can better understand the scope of interests at play, as well as the conflicts which result, without villainizing any of the participants. A better understanding benefits us all.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-fullwidth.fusion-builder-row-1 { overflow:visible; }<\/style><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightofway.law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightofway.law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightofway.law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightofway.law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightofway.law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rightofway.law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1295,"href":"https:\/\/rightofway.law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightofway.law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightofway.law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightofway.law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}