§ 1240.240.Acquisition of Property By Any Means Consented to By Owner

Just as § 1240.150 carves out a consent-based path around the remainder-acquisition rules, § 1240.240 does the same for future-use takings. When the owner expressly consents, a public entity can acquire property intended for future use by any means, including eminent domain, without satisfying the seven-year probability requirement or the burden-of-proof rules the rest of Article 3 imposes.

The reasoning follows a pattern this chapter repeats elsewhere: Article 3's seven-year timeline and burden-shifting rules exist to protect an owner from indefinite or speculative condemnation. An owner who has already consented to the acquisition doesn't need that protection, so this section lets the transaction proceed on the owner's own terms instead.