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Mayor Jim Dodge: land purchases, eminent domain used to address blight, traffic and flooding

Mayor's remarks · December 19, 2025
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Mayor Jim Dodge said officials have used land purchases and eminent domain to address longstanding blight at the Prairie House (151st and Harlem), to improve traffic at 159th and 94th Avenue, and to pursue cleanup and flood-control work on South Wolf Road. Details of the actions were not specified.

Mayor Jim Dodge said officials have used land purchases and eminent domain to address what he described as longstanding problems, pointing to a blighted property at 151st and Harlem, a congested intersection at 159th and 94th Avenue, and flood-prone stretches of South Wolf Road.

"I've received a number of questions lately about some of the land purchases and eminent domain," Dodge said, framing those steps as responses to persistent…

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