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State: Virginia
How are private property rights and gun rights butting heads? A retirement community is seeing gunfire from a neighboring agricultural land area on which the owner fires his guns
What is the loophole in the code? landowners can fire their weapons on their land at pleasure “on any private property in a “basement, cellar, or target range,””
The legal fight: Texas Central Rail and Grimes County
The court: 506th District Court in Texas
The judge’s words: The defendants (Texas Central Partners) and their agents are permanently enjoined from performing surveys or other studies which damage, alter or impair county maintained rights of way,”
What Grimes County says it does: prevents Texas Central Rail from exercising precondemantion surveys & Texas Central Rail does not have eminent domain authority
What Texas Central Rail says it…
Cities in Florida rejoice that the Legislature failed to pass statewide short term home rental legislation.
The bill would have preempted local ordinances on short term home rentals.
Sarasota Herald Tribune | Vacation rental bill dies, but sponsor pledges to bring it back
The alleged crimes: “fraud by getting inside information from the Texas Department of Transportation to buy cheap land alongside Interstate 35E and then flip it to the state at inflated prices”
How was the land value increased? land underdevelopment was considered to be a higher value
The “profit” generated by these sales to TXDOT? $12.6Million
State & Pipeline: Keystone XL in Nebraska
What is the hearing about: Whether the pipeline can be granted eminent domain authority
What happened at the 10 hour hearing:
With how many of the landowners has the pipeline reached an agreement? 90% of the landowners have…
How does this project seek to avoid eminent domain? The hydrogen superhighway proposed in Michigan will elevate the superhighway, limiting the need for access roads.
What will the superhighway carry?
Private property rights groups say the eminent domain bills of the Texas Legislature are too watered down to support.
The bills do not protect propety owners by not:
NewsTalk 710 | A Setback On Eminent Domain Reform
ALEC on eminent domain for high speed rail:
“Of course, a great many public use transportation infrastructure projects ultimately need to use eminent domain to be able to reach completion. Specifically, railroads, including those in Texas, have long had to resort to eminent domain to provide a bene t to the public as have highways and other public infrastructure. And the truth is that trying to build a railroad (or highway) without some sort of eminent domain is nearly impossible. “
“Like the…
State: Mississippi
The tax proposal on home sharing:
Clarion Ledger | Mississippi Dept. of Revenue pushing to tax Airbnb, other rentals like hotels
City: Seattle
The proposed home sharing ordinance:
NBC K5 Western Washington | Seattle Councilmember proposes Airbnb regulations