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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.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton lays out 2 ways McKinney’s proposed annexation plan isn’t lawful:
How the notices violate the Open Meetings Act and Local Government Code:
The local government: Somerset County, NJ
The fee: $15 fee to file official documents with the County Recorder of Deeds. Documents include mortgages and deeds
The fees will be dedicated to which fund? The Demolition Fund to help the county remediate blight
Property developers in Los Angeles California are charged a fee that subsidizes affordable housing.
How did this end up in court? Developers argued that the fees are tantamount to a taking of private property “for public use without just compensation.”
What happened in court? The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, October 30, 2017, refused an appeal that upheld the affordable housing fee.
California State Courts found that the developer fees are: a reasonable regulation of development.
What’s happening? Marietta Georgia argued before the Georgia Supreme Court that the 2006 Landowner Bill of Rights was optional.
What was the landowner’s argument? That the city had to follow the landowner bill of rights and provide a detailed appraisal prior to condemnation proceedings.
What did the Georgia Supreme Court say?
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:
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
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?