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Federal drone legislation seeks to provide this broad framework:
In addition to broad federal framework, it requires flexibility for local ordinances concerning:
Drone Innovation Act | Rep. Jason Lewis (R-MN)
State: Louisiana
The eminent domain issue: A private dock entity, Violet Dock Port, had been operating in St. Bernardship parish. The Port Authority wanted to acquire its private competitor. Violet and the Port couldn’t agree on a price, so the Port Authority used eminent domain & began operating the Dock Port.
The Louisiana Constitution says: “no business enterprise or any of its assets shall be taken for the purpose of operating that enterprise or halting competition with a government…
In Missouri, the Missouri Supreme Court upheld an appellate ruling that effectively stopped a transmission line plan.
How could the court do this? In Missouri to build a transmission line, the state agency must have input from the counties. Why? Because state law says counties must determine whether a proposed project meets engineering & safety guidelines.
6 of the 8 counties said no to the transmission project. The project backers had asked the MO Supreme Court to not require the county…
The U.S. Supreme Court sided with Wisconsin in a property rights case last week. Property irghts activists are hanging their hats on the liberal majority in this opinion.
Murr’s property right sissue isn’t as clear cut as Kelo’s- should the house be taken. Murr owned multiple parcels of land and wanted to sell one parcel to build a cabin.
Standing in the way of the Murr’s cabin dream is a Wisconsin law that barred the sale because conservation rules treat the two lots as a single property…
Hays County Free Press quoting Colin Strother, of the Buda Planning and Zoning Commission chairperson, says if a tree ordinance passes “municipalities might sue the state for intrusion.”
Hays County Free Press | Proposed bill may uproot local tree ordinances
City: Atlanta
Ordinance: 1982 Ordinance required:
Court: City agreed to stop enforcement of a 1982 ordinance and pay $500 in restitution to the property owner and the mural artist. Attorney fees and costs are still being negotiated.
Atlanta Daily Report | City Agrees to Halt Enforcement of Ordinance That Threatened Artwork
A Republican City Council candidate in Amherst, NY is running with the goal of using eminent domain to take a country club by eminent domain to build sports courts for the community.
Populist Eminent Domain.
Buffalo News | Amherst businessman launches bid for Town Board
Belton, Texas City Manager says an annexation bull like 85R’s SB 715 would:
Belton has used development agreements as a stop gap to halt annexation.
Temple Daily Telegram | Belton may be impacted by special session annexation bill
After Hurricane Sandy, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed an executive order permitting eminent domain to rebuild New Jersey’s lost shore line.
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection bought easements with the backing of eminent domain to rebuild the shore.
Who is suing the State of New Jersey?
Institute for Justice, private property legal advocates of Kelo fame, say Colorado’s HB 17-1313, is the nation’s most comprehensive asset forfetiture reform.
HB 17-1313 will: