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CALIFORNIA, Escondido – Eleven years after being forced to sell its property under a threat of eminent domain, the Redding family will finally get its land back for $596,000. “I wrestled with this issue for weeks,” Mayor Lori Holt Pfeiler said. “This is not a legal issue. We are not obligated to sell the property back to the family.” County Supervisor Pam Slater-Price weighed in on the debate last week, urging the city to sell the land back at the original purchase price of $345,000 plus property tax, because it was “taken under eminent domain.”