Welcome to the Future!
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
State: North Dakota
What happened with this land to trigger this bill? The landowners say that the state took their oil and gas mineral rights from property acquired by the federal government for the construction of the Garrison Dam. The State Supreme Court agreed.
What was the Legislative fix? To except mineral rights from land transactions by the state as it relates to the dam project
The Bill: North Dakota SB 2134 (2017)
Bismark Tribune via Dickinson Press | Family ‘elated’ over ND…
State Rep. Ernest Bailes says the Texas House needs to revisit these eminent domain issues:
The Huntsville Item | State representative staying busy with county fair, interim charges
“State Rep. Larry Phillips, state Sen. Craig Estes and Texas Association of Business CEO Jeff Moseley spoke on issues ranging from property tax reform to imminent (sic) domain concerns.”
“Graham said there is a growing group who claim conservative beliefs but take an anti-business stance. As an example of this Moseley said there were 25 bills against eminent domain use in this latest session. Moseley said eminent domain can be used to help secure infrastructure and public improvements.
Moseley…
State Legislature: Pennsylvania
The eminent domain limitation bill: No eminent domain when a landlocked property is created with no access from a public road
The key bill text: ” a condemnor may not render the remaining parcel inaccessible to the condemnee by creating a landlocked property with no ingress or egress to or from a public road or highway”