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AEP originally offered Melanie and Charles Ogle $3,600 for the 1,500-foot-long by 30-foot-wide swath of land it says it needs to string an electric line to a telecommunications tower the utility is building about 1,500 feet from the couple's home.
A jury set the amount following a two-day trial. The Ogles said the property was worth $75,000.
Still, the Ogles said money is not the issue. They have lived "off grid" for 17 years, using solar panels to charge batteries to power their 2,000-square-foot log home. They do not want or need the overhead electric line that AEP proposes to run in front of their property.
The Ogles said they plan to file an appeal of a judge's ruling last year that declared AEP had the right to use eminent domain to take their land because the project was a necessity.
Under state law in effect at the time, an appeal of the eminent domain ruling could not be filed until the compensation phase concluded. Their Lancaster lawyer, Ray Michalski, said that he will ask for a delay in enforcing the land-taking ruling while the ruling is appealed.
The Ogles argue that AEP is abusing its eminent domain power to take their land to build a power line that won't service customers.
The company said it needs the tower to help its workers in trucks communicate by radio. As it is, there are spots in the Hocking Hills where communication is difficult, spokesman Jeff Rennie said.
The company was evaluating today's compensation decision, he said.
Meanwhile, Good Hope Township trustees last week voted to impose a temporary, one-year moratorium on the construction of telecommunications towers and wind turbines.
The moratorium, adopted Nov. 13, is intended to give the township time to develop and submit to voters a comprehensive zoning plan that would balance service to the community with the potential for damage to adjacent properties.
Hocking County has no zoning, but the Ogles said township trustees told them and other concerned residents that township voters might be amenable to developing local zoning because so many are transplants from the city who moved to the hills for the natural beauty.
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