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Owners of a property on County Line Road in Villanova have filed preliminary objections to Lower Merion School District's plan to take their land through eminent domain. In the filing, they accuse the district of abusing the eminent domain law by grabbing the property when Villanova University had already made an offer to purchase the site. According to the filing, an attorney for the district told the owners' attorney that if they did not agree to the school district's purchase offer, they would be without a place to live and would have to move out quickly, and their granddaughter, who lives with them, would no longer be able to attend the school district. The dispute goes back to December, when the school district announced it would use eminent domain to take the 1835 County Line Road property, along with a property at 1800 W. Montgomery Ave., to be used for playing fields for a planned middle school at 1860 Montgomery Ave. The district responded by saying it offered more money than Villanova University did and that the owners would be able to live in the property rent- and property-tax-free until the district needs the property in 2023. Source: Daily Times 2/13/2019 

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