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The concept: rent out your backyard swimming pool by the hour.
The reaction from policymakers: lots of legislative answers:
USA Today Network | ‘Airbnb for pools’ in Lakewood, Jackson faces legal, insurance questions
4 Trigger Phrases in Empower Texas'”Forced Annexation & Texans”:
Michigan’s Senate Bill 329 and House Bill 4503 prohibit local governments from creating anti-short term rental ordinances.
How are these bills keeping short term rentals alive?
News Review | Bills would prohibit bans on short-term rentals
Michigan Supreme Court found that a man backing out of his garage, onto his driveway & pulling back into his garage could be arrested for DWI.
Private Property Rights activists and dissenting justices call the ruling a disgrace to private property rights.
Detroit Free Press | Finley: Man’s driveway is not his castle, court rules
Private Property Rights activists in West Virginia are protesting the financial institution funding a pipeline project.
Represents a distinct change from protesting the pipeline company and affords more locations to protest.
Kansas Supreme Court ruled in late July 2017 that a violation of a restrictive covenant by an entity with the power of eminent domain is a taking requiring compensation requiring just compensation.
Thats a lot of legal words, what does it mean? In this Kansas case it means that Kansas DOT acquired land that was restricted to single family homes via restricted covenant. When KSDOT builds a bridge or roadway on that land it creates a compensable damage to the subdivision that created the…
What does Governor Abbott literay techniques are used to describe forced annexation in his opinion piece, Forced Annexation is Un-Texan?
He goes on to write that Forced Annexation harms the property rights of those annexed by:
The Massachusettes Land Court has held that short term rental ordinance violates zoning rules that require single family residences.
Lytle v. Swiec, 2017 WL 2257702 (Mass. Land Ct. 2017)
Do you support “elected officials work[ing] to prevent and limit the use of eminent domain to take property rights from private landowners for use in oil and gas pipelines?”
That’s the question Whatcom County Council in Washington State wants to ask its residents in November.
KAFE 104.1 | Private property won’t get extra protection from eminent domain
TPPF position is that tree ordinances are: