A group of Georgia Realtors on Wednesday launched a media push that advocates changing the state's eminent domain laws to protect residential and commercial property from being seized by governments for private development.

The City of Stockbridge is trying to negotiate with a couple who owns a piece of land that the city wants to develop into government facilities, retail stores, residential buildings. The couple happen to own a flower shop on that same piece of land, which the city happened to have condemned. The couple is challenging the comdemnation.

Steve Davis, a State Legislator, who also is a Realtor, said the city is expediting its condemnation to "usurp" the Legislature before it can take up the issue during the General Assembly.

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