Category Archives: private property rights

New Kid on the Block. Anatomy of a Rural Association. 9 Types of Members +2 Unexpected Issues

WHERE: Oklahoma

WHAT: New Oklahoma Rural Association

WHO are members of the ORA?

  • energy
  • agribusiness
  • manufacturing
  • financial services
  • equipment
  • utilities sectors
  • including associations like: Farm Bureau, American Farmers and Ranchers, the Cattlemen’s Association
  • corporations
  • &  landowners.

Additional Issues they will engage the Legislature on:

  •  education
  • health care

The Oklahoman | New Oklahoma Lobbying Group to represent rural communities

Lege TREND. Compensation. 3 Ways 1 Bill Benefits Land Owners.

Michigan Legislature is considering HB4070 (2017-2018 | MI) which addresses land owner compensation in 3 ways:

  • Attorney Fees and Costs when a court determines a taking occurred
  • State Attorney General creates a list of governmental actions that results in a taking occurring
  • Can apply to rules, permits, applications and other governmental actions

Mackinac Center | House Bill 4070, Revise government eminent domain takings: Passed 76 to 31 in the House on March 28, 2017 

3 Ways a Texas City Does Not Allow Short Term Rentals

The city: Grapevine

The methods to prohibit short term rentsls:

  • zoning rules prohibit short term rentals
  • ordinances clearly define what a short term rental is
  • the city will being an outreach campaign explaining the prohibition on short term rentals

What do supports of prohibiting short term rentals say?

  • short term rentals bring noise complaints
  • short term rentals bring parking complaints
  • short term rentals are just party houses
  • short term rentals harm property values

Ft. Worth Star…

Campaign TREND. 3 Negative Depictions of Eminent Domain in Texas.

  • eminent domain is a government wrecking ball
  • eminent domain displaces poor families
  • eminent domain is used by bullies and oligarchs

CLUB FOR GROWTH ACTION LAUNCHES AD CAMPAIGN IN TEXAS SENATE RACE

Politico | ‘The race has tightened’: Cruz allies sound alarm about Texas Senate race

Lege TREND. How to Cut Down Eminent Domain Litigation

California Legislature passed AB 987 (2018 | CA) that streamlines building a new stadium for the Clippers & construction by the Oakland A’s by:​

  • requiring litigation to be resolved within 270 days of the filing of the certified record of proceedings

NBC Sports | Pro Basketball Talk | State legislature helps Clippers take next step toward new home arena 

San Francisco Chronicle | Legislature passes bill to help Oakland A’s streamline construction of a Howard Terminal stadium

Activist TREND. 100 mile marches against pipeline. 3 Things Protestors Are Saying.

Where:  Iowa

The group organizing the eminent domain protest: The First Nation-Farmer Climate Unity March, organized by the environmental advocacy groups Bold Iowa and Indigenous Iowa,

Pipeline being protested:  Dakota Access Pipeline 

Protestors Say the Pipeline will:

  • A pipeline break will contaminate water
  • A pipeline break will affect generations nby soil contaminations
  • Eminent Domain Abuse should be stopped

Des Moines Register | These Iowans are walking nearly 100 miles to protest the…

Campaign TREND. Ballot Proposition on Eminent Domain.

Colorado Secretary of State this week certified Amendment 74 that will:

  • ensure fair compensation
  • responds to punitive government action
  • protects all private property owners, including homeowners, businesses, farmers and ranchers, urbanites and suburbanites
  • will prohibit state or local governments taking their property by reducing its value without compensation

Valley Courier | Property rights initiative certified for November ballot. 

8 Property Rights Points from Rural Land Owners. Pipelines from Permian Basin to the Texas Gulf.

A lawyer representing rural landowners writes:

  • Private for-profit companies are given the government’s power to take private property under assumptions that this is good, common good
  • Are we rubber stamping common good projects for public use/benefit?
  • Why are we taking land before the process is approved by the courts?
  • We need to look at the costs and benefits of eminent domain
  • What happens to old pipelines and how does this get factored into the costs and benefits?
  • Landowners are in an…

Eminent Domain Compensation. How Does a Private taking By a Pipeline Differ from Wind or Solar Energy?

A taking of private land by a private company for a pipeline results in no compensation from royalties, unlike a taking of property for solar or wind energy

CWB Radio | Clark County Board of Supervisors Approves Resolution Asking Wisconsin to Review Eminent Domain Laws