Fairfax joins eminent domain lobbying effort

Fairfax County will join a lobbying push to preserve the ability of local governments to take private land, fighting measures by some state lawmakers to curtail the powers of eminent domain.

County Executive Anthony Griffin, in a memo sent last month, advised supervisors he would devote $5,000 in public funds to the campaign, arguing that eminent domain “is a very complicated and technical area of law which is not understood by a number of legislators.”