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St. Augustine is suing to obtain private property for flood mitigation, including building a seawall and installing pumps, ...
The City of St. Augustine filed a 30-page eminent domain lawsuit against two properties whose owners refuse to turn over ...
Augustine Sanchez, 24, was accused of organizing the attempted robbery of Riley, calling him "an easy target." He allegedly waited in the car while the other three men went into the home shooting ...
The City of St. Augustine has filed an eminent domain lawsuit against the owners of two properties over a dispute involving a flood mitigation and drainage improvement project in the city.
The city wants to build a seawall to alleviate flooding, but it needs the marsh edges of the two properties to proceed.
St. Augustine's design for a long-sought seawall along Lake Maria Sanchez requires easements on private property, but three homeowners are resisting.
St. Augustine neighbors say the Maria Sanchez Lake and the marsh just south of it have long been a significant flooding danger to surrounding homes. “It floods here pretty much every time it ...
Sanchez, who died in 1994, left her home on Marine Street to the Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board. When the board was abolished, the property went to the city.