21.   Measures being taken include increasing the amount a property owner must pay towards an insurance claim.

22.   Almost invariably, property owners are benefiting from the competition.

23.   Already approved by property owners and likely to win Seattle City Council OK, the Downtown Business Improvement Area could be operating by late summer.

24.   Already, the implacable opposition of threatened property owners threatens to weaken drastically the Endangered Species Act, which is up for reauthorization by Congress this year.

25.   Although the new law allows a judge to award attorney fees to a property owner who wins a forfeiture case, that right already was available.

26.   Also, property owners should not move wood from infected trees off their land, Rizzo said.

27.   Although the potential bargaining positions of the Broad Street property owners remain unclear, one of the owners is known to look unfavorably on a proposed deal.

28.   An appeals court, however, said the law allows claims to recover cleanup costs from previous property owners.

29.   And Gore said the bill requiring payments to private property owners for the impact of regulations could cost the government billions.

30.   And courts in Massachusetts have long held that property owners do not have a duty to their neighbors to maintain their views or their direct sunlight.