Welcome to the Future!
What’s happening? Marietta Georgia argued before the Georgia Supreme Court that the 2006 Landowner Bill of Rights was optional.
What was the landowner’s argument? That the city had to follow the landowner bill of rights and provide a detailed appraisal prior to condemnation proceedings.
What did the Georgia Supreme Court say?
Texas State Representative Ernest Bailes op-ed in the Houston Chronicle makes these points about a need to review eminent domain laws:
Houston Chronicle Op-Ed | Bailes: Eminent domain statutes need review to ensure fairness
Kentucky is wiring the state for internet with the aptly names- KentuckyWired project.
To wire bluegrass country, the state Kentucky Communications Network Authority (KCNA)is overseeing the public private investment.
What eminent domain rumors are swirling in the bluegrass? That homes are being taken away.
How did Kentuckywired respond:
House Committee on County Affairs
#7 Land Development & Floods. Evaluate whether counties have the necessary ordinance-making and enforcement authority to deal with flood risk in unincorporated rural and suburban areas of Texas. Additionally, examine whether counties have adequate resources and authority to ensure that new development in unincorporated areas is not susceptible to flooding.
House Committee on Energy Resources
#5 Wind Decommissioning & Property Rights. Examine how…
Minneapolis, MN recently adopted short term rental ordinances which will:
What’s the rush on the ordinances? The 2018 Super Bowl will be in the Twin Cities
A real estate broker in Michigan penned an op-ed supporting Michigan’s HB 4503 & SB 329 that prempt local ordiannces and home owner associagtion rules regarding short term rentals.
The 2 bills provide for local control over noise, traffic, advertising and other conditions.
The real estate broker support for these bills:
No, a MUD cannot use its funds to replace vandalized mailboxes in its jurisdiction.
The Attorney General Opinion KP-0169 lays out which code sections that could be amended to include a MUD’s use of funds to repair or replace mailboxes:
TEX. WATER CODE§ 54.012.
TEX. WATER CODE§ 54.201(b), §54.236 and §54.242 add to the laundry list of specific revenues uses for MUDs
In an op-ed focusing on the willfull flooding of homes by the Army Corps of Engineers, Texas Seantor Joan Huffman makes these points about just compensation:
Houston Chronicle | Huffman: Homeowners deserve ‘just compensation’
City: Portland Oregon
Current city ordinance that prohibits tiny houses on private property: A prohibition from people sleeping in vehicles.
What is Portland doing with the current prohibition while a specific ordinance is being crafted: Portland has suspended enforcement
What other policy issue is being tackled with tiny house policy? reduce homeless
What elements will the proposed tiny house ordinance contain?
A Virginia House of Delegates candidate has phrased her opposition to eminent domain as:
“protect individual property rights from eminent domain when it is to be used to benefit private corporations rather than the public.”
Augusta Free Press | Sierra Club endorses Michele Edwards in 20th District House race