Welcome to the Future!
Where: Boston, Massachusetts
Which properties can be offered for short term rental? Owner Occuppied Properties
Which properties cannot be offered for short term rental?
Boston Globe | City Council passes tough rules that limit Airbnb rentals.
Where: Universal City, Missouri
What: A road expansion project requires the acquisition of property.
How will eminent domain be used? The city’s position is to not use eminent domain on any owner occuppied property.
Universal City Patch | Olive/170 Project Raises Hopes And Fears In University City
State:Pennsylvania
The regulatory requirement for managing short term rentals: a real estate broker licensing requirement that “makes it a crime for anyone but a fully licensed real estate broker to help property owners manage rental properties on sites like Airbnb”
Who challenged the regualtory scheme? The Institute for Justice
What have the courts done? Appellate Court has kept the licensing requirement in tact
What is the argument against a broker license for managing short term…
The anatomy of reservoir building in Florida:
The reservoir project: a massive 60,000-acre shallow reservoir to stop dirty water in Lake Okeechobee from polluting the coasts and revive South Florida’s wilting marshes
The opposition: Sugar farmers who refused to sell
The legislative action: Deny the use of eminent domain to complete the reservoir
Miami Herald | Vast reservoir is key to state Everglades plan. Federal concerns could derail it.
Why do mountain states allow for private condemnation for natural resources? to encourage natural resource development
How is the private condemnation used in arid regions?
State: Pennsylvania
Legislation: HB 2468 (2018 | PA)
How does HB 2468 (2018 | PA) make it harder to use eminent domain on open space?
Author’s Press Release on HB 2568 (2018 | PA)
Main Line Times | Kampf proposes law to make use of eminent domain on open space land more difficult
Colorado Farm Bureau is proposing Initiative 108 that will amend the Colorado Constitution to:
What is the catalyst? tightening of setbacks on oil and gas development from fracking proliferation
How does the tightening of oil and gas setbacks impact farmers? Setbacks essentially eliminate oil and natural gas development & farmers rely on royalty checks
Court: Texas Supreme Court
Case: Tarr v. Timberwood Park Owners Ass’n, Inc.
Did restrictive covenants stop short term rentals? No, short term rentals can continue.
How did short term rentals continue in the face of restrictive covenenants that limit use of a property to single-family residences?
When Missouri capped local revenue from trffic tickets at 30%, the number of fines issued for housing violations skyrocketed.
39% of the adult population in Pagedale, Missouri was issued a housing fine.
Lawsuits ensued.
This week a consent decree was entered that will:
institute for justice | Federal Court Approves Historic Consent Decree Ending “Policing for Profit”…
Ordinance Proposal will define a nuisance as: ” “any condition or use of property which unreasonably interferes with health, safety, peace, comfort or convenience of the general community and is detrimental to the property of others or which causes or tends to cause substantial diminution in the value of other property in the neighborhood in which such property is located.”
Fine: fine of up to $1,000 or remedy within 10 days
City: Raymond NH
Opponents say: This is not live free or die. If…