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There’s a possibility eminent domain could be used for expanding the Convention Center. Perhaps maybe plus a whole slew of ther hedge words, eminent domain may be used for a project that includes a new Westin properties hotel on Ceasar Chavez near/linked to the Convention Center.
Naturally landowners and businesses are opposed to the use of eminent domain, but then the story gets interesting.
The response from the city on whether eminent domain is very nuances, let’s look:
Legislating & regulating the use of drones is a delicate dance between privacy advocates, property rights advocates, and figuring out who owns air space.
Here are the most basic rules:
16,000 signatures have been collected to opposed San Francisco’s short term rental ordinances.
Opposition to the short term ordinances includes:
Opposition stems from the San Francisco short term rental ordinance:
The initiative would amend the current short term rental ordinance to require:
A cap on the number of nights a unit could be rented at 75…
In a long attorney general opinion, relying on case law from Nevada to Florida, the attorney general of South Carolina has issued an opinion that an oil and gas pipeline in all likelihood does not get the privilege of eminent domain.
The opinion discusses South Carolina Courts, and other courts, striking down eminent domain for private companies.
Its a trend that has been sweeping the nation from courts to legislatures. Everyone is looking for a public use connected to the land that is…
The Institute for Justice reviewed eminent domain reforms to protect private proeprty rights enacted after Kelo and found none of the doomsday messages.
According to this reasearch, the world does not end, regardless of how strong the private property reforms are.
In Atlanta people sued when Cobb County tried to seek bonds to finance a stadium for the Braves.
The Court boiled it down to “national pasttime” and “economic benefit.” the Atlanta Braves are a public benefit.
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Empower Texas is highlighting Houstonian barry Klien, founder of Houston Property Rights Association. In 1992, he founded Houston Property Rights Association to fight against zoning in Houston. Houston Property Rights Association has been active since.
Empower Texas highlights that “Because of his work, the Property Rights Foundation of America called him, “one of the most respected property rights activists in the nation.” With Klein’s tireless efforts and wealth of knowledge, he…
TPPF says these 2015 bills would have helped:
The US Supreme Court let stand a 5th Circuit ruling in favor of TCEQ. Guadalupe Blanco River Authority had sued saying a TCEQ action caused the death of a bunch of whooping cranes.
GBRA was trying to show a regulatory taking of property, which means something of value had to be taken (whooping cranes) and it was the fault of the government (TCEQ).
In this case, not so much proof of a regulatory taking according to the courts. A win for TCEQ. A loss for lovers of whooping cranes.
Say you own property near a Native American reservation. Say you have to use a county road to reach your property, but the county road runs through tribal lands. Does the soveriegn authority of the tribe override your property rights to an easement that you have enjoyed?
Time will tell. Tribes in New Mexico are cutting off access to county roads that traverse tribal lands. Some non-tribal lands, that are wholly surrounded by tribal lands, may have no access to and from their…