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St. Paul, Minnesota is moving forward with new short term rental rules that would:
What sparked the short term rental rules? The 2018 Super Bowl is being hosted by the Twin Cities.
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
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…
TPPF position is that tree ordinances are:
Wisconsin legislators are working to bolster the state’s Landowner Bill of Rights by:
The goals of the bill are prevent another Murr situation by ensuring that:
KP-0155 sets forth the rational as to why tree ordinances are takings of private property. Here’s the 3 step argument:
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…
A Tyler Morning Telegraph editorial supports:
Tyler Morning Telegraph | Editorial: We can protect trees and property rights at the same time
the country: Sweden
How can a country list itself on AirBnB? In Sweden, the first law of the country is Allemansrätten which means you can freely roam, camp and forage.
Does Allemansrätten mena you can enter homes or cabins and pillage? No. Swedes aren’t inviting people to be Vikings. The law means you can pick some chantrelles in the forrest, it doesn’t mean pick the lock on the cabin.
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,””