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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
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…