Welcome to the Future!
The City: Sandy Springs, GA
How does this work in Georgia, where there is a separate eminent domain for the billboard? Georgia’s laws allow for billboard relocatation somewhere within 250 feet in lieu of an eminent domain reimbursement, if the city has a billboard relocation ordinance.
What has the city offered? A city ordinance that allows for billboard relocation if:
Short Term Rental ordinance in Carmel Indiana are packaged as controlling “Animal House” rentals.
What would the ordinance do? Allow for zoning and regulations but not ban short term rentals.
Airbnb welcomes regulation: “”We’re very supportive of regulation. Of course, we don’t want to see our business banned,” says the Airbnb public policy director.
Herald Bulletin | Panel ponders ‘Animal House’ rentals
Indiana legislature is working through how to craft a statewide framework for short term rentals.
The 4 issues that are tanatmount to leadership:
WFYI Indianapolis | On Airbnb Issue, Lawmakers Weigh Tricky Property Rights Balance
This bill from 2017 will be reintroduced in…
Entity that exercized its power of eminent domain? The City of Youngtown, Ohio
The statutory authority to take a residential property: The City of Youngstown has the authority to use eminent domain by a spot blight taking that allows an individual property to be taken via eminent domain.
Was the property occuppied? No, it was abandoned by the 2nd previous owner, and purchased by Harbour Portfolio Advisors at a foreclosure sale
Which entity rehabilitated the property for resale? The Youngstow…
The City: Littleton, CO & Wheat Ridge, CO
The voter approval requirement: To access urban renewal tools like tax increment financing or eminent domain require urban renewal
What did a district court in Colorado do with Wheat Ridge’s Ordinance? The Wheat Ridge ordinance, related to mandating that any tax-increment financing package over $2.5 million first get the consent of voters, is pre-empted by Colorado’s supremacy on the issue.
What’s the city’s argument: voter approval will cost time…
The City: Oklahoma City, OK
The Entertainment Distict: Bricktown
The city’s goal with the property acquisition: make it easier for people to get into Bricktown
The land the city needs to get to this goal of easy access: A U-Haul Parking Lot
Is UHaul agreeable: Yes to the project. No to the city offered compensation.
What was the business response: An open letter to the City that makes these points:
California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would have funded acquisition of a beach access point.
The reason for the veto? While the bill provided a means for beach access the bill precluded eminent domain.
Why does Governor Brown say the state needs Eminent Domain for this beach access issue?
No eminent domain for building the border wall according to H.R. 3943 by Congressmen O’Rourke (TX) and Gallego (AZ).
Arizona Public Media | Bill Seeks to Block Eminent Domain in Border-Wall Building
3 Candidates for mayor in Asheville North Carolina all support a ban on whole house/whole apartment short term rental bans.
Asheville Citizen Times | Asheville election: Candidates on banning short-term rentals
How is eminent domain bringing together “gun toting conservatives” & “liberal envrionmentalists”? Eminent Domain use for pipelines
Tell me where this is happening…? In Virgina & North Carolina with opposition to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which is set to bring natural gas from West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio to electric power plants in Virginia and North Carolina
(it also happened in Keystone XL)
Duke University | The Chronicle | They’ll be singing Kumbaya