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Ecotourism: Wilderness operators in Canada are arguing for their private property rights for ecotourism.
Economic Impact: As the rights of ecotourism are challenged, investors are pulling their funds out of the Candaian wilderness.
Prince George Citizen | Wilderness operators demand property rights
Which Texas official is for sprinklers in every residential property? Texas State Fire Marshal
What are the policy agruments of builders?
What event can supporters point to?
House Committee on County Affairs
#7 Land Development & Floods. Evaluate whether counties have the necessary ordinance-making and enforcement authority to deal with flood risk in unincorporated rural and suburban areas of Texas. Additionally, examine whether counties have adequate resources and authority to ensure that new development in unincorporated areas is not susceptible to flooding.
House Committee on Energy Resources
#5 Wind Decommissioning & Property Rights. Examine how…
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
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…
What is a data trespass law? While it sounds like data security, these laws create a crime against physically entering land to acquire data like pollution or animal cruetly.
Are data trespass laws constititional? Maybe not. A Federal Appeals court has found a Wyoming law likely violates the 1st Amendment.
Who is for these laws? Land owners, members of the Farm Bureau
Who is against these laws? People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Center for Food Safety, National Press Photographers…
A federal court in Houston found Houston’s homeless ordinance against public camping unconstitutional.
The Court opinion includes: “”Enforcement of the city’s ban against the plaintiffs may, therefore, cause them irreparable harm by violating their Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment due to their status of ‘homelessness,'”
Texas Lawyer | Federal Judge Halts Houston’s Homeless Ordinance Banning Public Camping
Urban Farms in California could get a property tax cut if San Diego adopts its ordinance to reduce property taxes for urban farming lands.
San Diego Union Tribune | New incentive aims to spur more community gardens