Property Rights TREND. Chronic Wasting Disease Rules. 4 Key Points. Apple Blossom State.

Michigan’s new hunting rules to combat chronic wasting disease include:

  • Reduce Antler Requirement. In the 16-county CWD Management Zone, reduced the 4 pt. on a side requirement to at least 1 3 inch antler
  • Private Land license. Created a discounted antlerless license in the CWD Management Zone on private land
    • limited to 10 per hunter
  • Ban urine based lures. Statewide ban on the use of all natural cervid urine-based lures and attractants
  • Ban baiting & feeding in Management Zone. Immediate…

Legal TREND. Requiring State Court Action Before Federal Courts on Property Rights.

Why should I be paying attention? The US Supreme Court will take up Knick v. Township of Scott, Pennsylvania 

The issue:  Pennsylvania wants to protect its right to handle land use fights in state courts

What states are supporting PA? UT, CA, MA, IN

Washington Examiner | States battling to keep their land use disputes away from federal courts 

Legal TREND. +1 Court Says no Property Right in Taxi License or Token

The Court: US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

The property right claimed by the Taxi industry: Ride Share Regulations amount to a taking of taxi property

The Court: the taxi industry has no right in blocking competition

Reason | Yet Another Federal Court Rejects Claims that Exposing Taxis to Competition from Uber and Lyft is a Taking 

LOCAL TREND. Anatomy of a City Audit on Short Term Rental Enforcement

City: Portland

What did auditors find? 

  •  “lax” enforcement
  • negative impact on affordable housing 
  • operators are not complying with liecening requirements
  • 1 in 5 are permitted 
  • success in collecting lodging taxes
  •  loose inspections and minimal safety requirements, especially related to fire safety

Mayoral repsonse: Negotiate deals with the comapnies to obtain a list of unpermitted properties

KOIN6 | Audit: Portland’s ‘lax’ at regulating short term rentals  

Property Rights: Property Rights in Online Data? Activist Legislation Say Yes, Yes Please.

Activists are promoting an Internet bIll of Rights, the kind of bill state legislatures love. What would it do to online property rights?

Create ownership rights in:

  •  personal photos, images, videos, writings and recordings
  • that get uploaded to a cloud, social media or wesbite
  • prohibits the of the photos, images, videos, writings or recordings without consent

Connecticut Post | We Need an Internet Bill of Rights

Local TREND. Local Land Banks to Remedy Blight. WHO.WHAT. WHERE.

WHERE | Georgia

WHO | Gainesville City Council

WHAT | Gainesville-Hall County Land Bank under the 2012 Georgia Land Bank Act

What will the Land Bank do?  

  • rehabilitate vacant or blighted properties by acquire
  • manage and sell properties that may be sitting empty due to foreclosure, tax delinquency, code violations or title complications
  • will not make a profit from sale of the properties

Will the Land Bank have the power of eminent domain?  NO

Gainesville Times | How Hall and Gainesville…

Anatomy of a Property Rights Coalition that Includes Law Enforcement

A trespass law in Idaho, H0658 (2018 | ID), created the Idaho Property Rights Coalitionwhich opposes the “stronger” trespass law.

The Idaho Property Rights Coalition members are:

  •   Idaho Cattle Association

  •   Idaho Grain Producers Association

  •   Idaho Farm Bureau Federation

  •   Idaho Wool Growers Association

  •   Food Producers of Idaho

  •   Idaho Eastern-Oregon Seed Association

  •   Idaho Mint Growers Association

  •   Milk Producers of Idaho

  •   Idaho…

Lege TREND. Trespass Law Protects Property Owners. Endangers Hunters & Fishermen and women

Idaho passed a trespass law H0658 (2018 | ID)  that ended a requirement that large tracks of land in the backcountry post no tresspass signs before a person can be charged with trespassing.

Law enforcement and its coalitionsays the new tresspass law endangers hunter and fishers by:

  • allows for criminal charges when a person has no knowledge of the trespass 
  • innocent people will be charged with crimes
  • the law is so vauge collecting a frisbee on land could be a crime

3 Opposition Talking Points. Land Use. Ballot Proposition Backed by Farmers + Oil & Gas

Which state has this ballot proposition? Colorado Inititative 108 (2018)

What groups are backing the initiative? Colorado Farm Bureau & Oil and Gas Industry

What does the ballot proposition do? Switches compensation calculation to a fair market value standard

The opposition: Cities, Counties

Opposition Says the proposition will:

  •  spawn countless lawsuits
  • it will tie the hands of local governments and prevent any zoning or ordinances
  • we don’t know the unintended consequences

The Gazette…