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Short Term Rental ordinance in Carmel Indiana are packaged as controlling “Animal House” rentals.
What would the ordinance do? Allow for zoning and regulations but not ban short term rentals.
Airbnb welcomes regulation: “”We’re very supportive of regulation. Of course, we don’t want to see our business banned,” says the Airbnb public policy director.
Herald Bulletin | Panel ponders ‘Animal House’ rentals
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?
3 Candidates for mayor in Asheville North Carolina all support a ban on whole house/whole apartment short term rental bans.
Asheville Citizen Times | Asheville election: Candidates on banning short-term rentals
How is eminent domain bringing together “gun toting conservatives” & “liberal envrionmentalists”? Eminent Domain use for pipelines
Tell me where this is happening…? In Virgina & North Carolina with opposition to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which is set to bring natural gas from West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio to electric power plants in Virginia and North Carolina
(it also happened in Keystone XL)
Duke University | The Chronicle | They’ll be singing Kumbaya
State: North Dakota
What happened with this land to trigger this bill? The landowners say that the state took their oil and gas mineral rights from property acquired by the federal government for the construction of the Garrison Dam. The State Supreme Court agreed.
What was the Legislative fix? To except mineral rights from land transactions by the state as it relates to the dam project
The Bill: North Dakota SB 2134 (2017)
Bismark Tribune via Dickinson Press | Family ‘elated’ over ND…
State Rep. Ernest Bailes says the Texas House needs to revisit these eminent domain issues:
The Huntsville Item | State representative staying busy with county fair, interim charges
State Legislature: Pennsylvania
The eminent domain limitation bill: No eminent domain when a landlocked property is created with no access from a public road
The key bill text: ” a condemnor may not render the remaining parcel inaccessible to the condemnee by creating a landlocked property with no ingress or egress to or from a public road or highway”
An attorney colum in the Huntsville Item raises these concerns about the notice procedures for eminent domain in Texas:
The column points to condeming entities bewing pipelines, transmission lines or local governments.