A Daphne property owner says the city is overreaching by using eminent domain to claim part of her family’s waterfront land. The city wants a public path through the property for a boardwalk. Meilyn Marino says the move threatens her privacy, access to the bay and the land’s value.
“It’s insulting, it’s hurtful, and just very stressful,” said Marino.
Marino owns a 4.4 acre wooded lot on Mobile Bay, north of Bayfront Park. Marino says her dad bought the land in the 1980s and she had future plans for it. Now, she says, she’s out thousands of dollars fighting the city’s effort to take a permanent, 30-foot-wide easement along her waterfront for a public pedestrian boardwalk…