Questions, challenges and nuances arise after Kirby v. NC DOT, 368 NC 847 (2016) construing the Map Act, Article 2E of Chapter 136. While the Map Act had the goal of reducing excessive cost of land acquisition for future highway projects, it ran afoul of fundamental constitutional rights.

I address some of these issues in my recent article, which was published by the Real Property Section of the North Carolina Bar Association. The full article is available at: https://ncbar.org/media/858286/rpmay2018map.pdf.