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Where: South Lake Tahoe, CA
The lawsuit basis: ” infringes on the constitutional rights of property owners by arbitrarily restricting the number of individuals who can occupy a vacation unit”
The kicker: intereferes with people’s holiday plans
The local rules on short term rentals in South Lake Tahoe? 2 persons per bedroom & bans short term rental sin residential neighborhoods
AP | Legal fight arises over South Lake Tahoe rental home rules
Massachusetts legislators have reached a deal on statewide short term rental bill that will:
AP | Massachusetts lawmakers reach deal on short-term rental bill
The eminent domain case that will be repeated in legislative sessions:
Reason | GM Will Shut Down Factory Built on Land Seized in Controversial 1981 Poletown Taking
Columbia County, Wisconsin Baord of Supervisors voted to support he following statewide eminent domain reform:
Are other Wisconsin counties doing the same thing? Yes, at least 6
Portage Daily Register | Columbia County Board favors eminent domain reform
Sawyer County Record | Rusk County passes resolution calling for…
Where: Kerrville, TX
The local government action: Amending the creation of TIRZ 1 to prohibit the use of eminent domain
Did it pass? No, it did not pass for procedural reasons
Kerrville Daily Times | Council nixes eminent domain TIRZ clarification
As signed by Michigan’s Governor, SB 1197 (2018 | MI) will:
Institute of Justice is representing a class of renters in Seattle to challenge the city’s ordinance that requires inspection of rental property.
The ordinance: Rental Registration and Inspection Ordinance, Seattle Municipal Code 22.214.
When tenants refused entrance to the inspector a fine of $500 per day until the landlord persuaded the tenant to permit the inspector to inspect the premise.
Institute for Justice | Seattle mandatory rental inspection Law
What project? A coastal barrier project that will be a 71-mile long system of gates and levees
Where? Along the Texas Gulf Coast
How does eminent domain come into play? Businesses and residences on Bolivar Peninsula and Galveston Island could be impacted
Who would exercise eminent domain? Texas General Land Office
What do I need to know about TX GLO, eminent domain and the coastal barrier?
Who: Amazon Headquarters 2
Where: New York
What: New York City officials and New York State officials pitch to lure Amazon included the use of eminent domain for prime real estate
What specific eminent domain offers were made?
The City of St. Pete Beach built a new park.
The City then made maps, websites, physical signs, that suggested to the public that they were free to cross that private property to get to the beach.
The private property owners sued.
These actions- signs, maps and websites suggesting to cross private property are a taking tantamount to eminent domain.
Chmielewski v. City of St. Pete Beach, 890 F.3d 942 (11thCir. 2018).