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The state that prohibits eminent domain with grant funds: Indiana
The grant funds that prohibit eminent domain: State Community Development Block Grant Main Street Revitalization Program, which requires local matching of $150,000 for a total $600,000 grant
The local government project that will use the grant funds: widen, replace and extend sidewalks in Georgetown, Indiana in connection with the River Hills Economic Development District and Regional Planning Commission.
Kentucky is wiring the state for internet with the aptly names- KentuckyWired project.
To wire bluegrass country, the state Kentucky Communications Network Authority (KCNA)is overseeing the public private investment.
What eminent domain rumors are swirling in the bluegrass? That homes are being taken away.
How did Kentuckywired respond:
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…
Minneapolis, MN recently adopted short term rental ordinances which will:
What’s the rush on the ordinances? The 2018 Super Bowl will be in the Twin Cities
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:
City: Portland Oregon
Current city ordinance that prohibits tiny houses on private property: A prohibition from people sleeping in vehicles.
What is Portland doing with the current prohibition while a specific ordinance is being crafted: Portland has suspended enforcement
What other policy issue is being tackled with tiny house policy? reduce homeless
What elements will the proposed tiny house ordinance contain?
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…
The City: Littleton, CO & Wheat Ridge, CO
The voter approval requirement: To access urban renewal tools like tax increment financing or eminent domain require urban renewal
What did a district court in Colorado do with Wheat Ridge’s Ordinance? The Wheat Ridge ordinance, related to mandating that any tax-increment financing package over $2.5 million first get the consent of voters, is pre-empted by Colorado’s supremacy on the issue.
What’s the city’s argument: voter approval will cost time…
California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would have funded acquisition of a beach access point.
The reason for the veto? While the bill provided a means for beach access the bill precluded eminent domain.
Why does Governor Brown say the state needs Eminent Domain for this beach access issue?
No eminent domain for building the border wall according to H.R. 3943 by Congressmen O’Rourke (TX) and Gallego (AZ).
Arizona Public Media | Bill Seeks to Block Eminent Domain in Border-Wall Building