Project Archives

From Blue Ridge Mountains to Golden Isles…

This list of projects, which cannot be contained in their entirety here, have taken the HAWKWOOD all over the great State of Georgia. Road and highways are the most common public projects that a property owner will encounter Eminent Domain type issues. Road Right-of-Way Projects come in all shapes and sizes of construction scope. City & County Municipalities, State Department of Transportation (GDOT), and even Federally controlled highways, interstate corridors, forestry, and military roads.

Mountainous and hilly topography can create issues with road projects that can leave a private property overlooking a cliff or depressed in a hole. Road grade of the project before & after, is key. In the Peidmont the growth of urban and suburban corridors will impact a variety of properties from traditionally agricultural and single-family uses now transitioning into commercial, industrial, and high-density residential developments. South Georgia road/highway projects can impact farmlands which include crop yields, timber harvests, livestock quality, land leases, irrigation wells and pivot arms, and access to properly continue those farming practices. Along the Georgia Coast and the Golden Isles, road and highways can impact wetland and environmental considerations that have long term effects on a property’s development, marketability, and eco/tourism.

• White County, Georgia: GDOT Cleveland By-Pass.

• Forsyth County, Georgia: GDOT Peachtree Parkway, County Project Sharon Springs/Old Atlanta Road

• Gwinnett/Barrow/Oconee Counties, Georgia: GDOT Highway 316 Corridor

• Greene/Putnam Counties, Georgia: GDOT Lake Oconee Parkway

• Twiggs County, Georgia: GDOT State Route 96

• (Augusta) Richmond County, Georgia: Windsor Spring Road Phase I-IV

• Glynn County, Georgia: Golden Isles Parkway

Empowering and Enlightening the Property Owner - It’s Electrifying…

The Bundle of Rights that all owners enjoy is one of the most fundamental concepts to private property. This “bundle” can be envisioned as a collection of rights that the property owner enjoys such as the rights of possession (to occupy, and control), rights of enjoyment (to use as one sees fit), right of disposition (to transfer all or a portion of this bundle of rights) and rights of exclusion. Each right has monetary value and some rights can be worth more than others depending on the property. In the case of easements the rights of exclusion are acquired from either a portion or all of the private property.

The majority of overheard transmission lines require permanent easements from the property owner. In some cases, “Fee Simple” or absolute control of the entire Bundle of Rights can occur to a property. The rights of use and utility and exclusive access are the most commonly impacted to area acquired in easement or fee simple when dealing with power transmission and distribution lines. In other cases the size of the power line and the proximity to a dwelling, business, or other site improvement can create consequential damages to property that may be taken into consideration. Here at the HAWKWOOD, all Bundle of Rights are taken into consideration when valuing an overhead or buried transmission/distribution power line.

• Fulton/Cobb Counties, Georgia: GA Power -230 kV Transmission Line Peachtree - McDonough

• Clarke County, Georgia: GA Power - 115 kV Transmission Line Athena - East Watkinsville

• Morgan/Walton/Oconee/Clarke Counties, Georgia: - GTC 230 & 500 kV Transmission Line Buckhead - Athens

• Jackson County, Georgia: GTC 230 kV Transmission Line and Substation(s) - Toyota/Kubota Plants

• Morgan/Walton/Newton Counties, Georgia: GTC 230 kV Transmission Line and Substation(s) - Facebook Data Center

• Banks County, Georgia: GTC Substation Site

The Burden of Waste On the Backs of a Few…

What may smell like money or economic development to municipal governments and private developers can end up being a big mess to the property owners that are required to have a sanitary sewer pipe line traverse their tract. The common pitch by most authorities to the property owners is that they will gain the benefit of no septic maintenance and possibility help the property to increase the potential for higher density. That all depends on the tract of land… each case is unique, and if a failure to the sewer line occurs HAWKWOOD has collected excellent data showing how this can actually decrease the marketability and fair market value of private property.