Acutally Someting Ohio Can Be Proud of.

This Might be slightly out dated but Still Very worth a renewed Shout out. 

Eminent Domain Redefined to Uphold "Original" Intent.

Ohio (be it 5 years in the books now) Redefined its stance on what is and is not "public" use.  In the wake of  the US Supreme Court decision to allow a private developer to exert eminent domain over private property due to lack of how "public use" was defined Ohio be it not exactly expedient did hit the books to define how it saw public use.

The long and short in a nut shell it makes it extremely difficult for a private developer to come in and clam that exercising eminent domain over a group of property's for "urban renewal".  It dose allow for the possibility.  If all requirements are met most any rational person would have to agree that the renewal would favor the overall community as a whole but there's a Lot of hoops to jump through.  so Kudos Ohio ya actually got this one pretty right.

The "original" intent of eminent domain is to allow state or federal government the ability when other compensating means have failed to acquire land needed for the general public's use.  Usually its reserved for the most extreme cases and commonly its for Infrastructure (roads and bridges lol sorry it was too tempting a poke)

Although I am not a huge proponent of eminent domain, I understand both sides.  You spend your life building the memories hopefully legacy and possibly inheritance of you home only to be told by the government sorry about your luck there's a new road that 'needs' to come through your Living-room.  By the same token there are times and unfortunately, urban usually, developments and even whole neighborhoods that have fallen in to shambles and are not only a tremendous eyesore but places that have become unsafe in terms of both structural integrity and crime.  However, the new narrowing of the Eminent Domain law for Ohio does sure up a large measure of safety against Private development company's coming in and forcibly taking indivitualy owned property solely to turn a buck so to speak.