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 Telegram | This Texas city doesn’t allow short-term rentals. ‘It’s just not appropriate,’ mayor says

 

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 Dakota Access Pipeline.  

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. 

TX Attorney General Request. Annexation. Fine Owners who vote no?

Requestor: Senator Donna Campbell

Question for the Atrorney General to Answer:  

  1. Whether it is permissible for a city to impose fees and fines on an unincorporated area within the city’s extra-territorial jurisdiction within five miles of a military base as part of the regulations suggested by a Joint Land Use Study?

  2. Whether San Antonio’s proposed annexation ballot language articulated below meets the standard of definiteness and certainty set forth by the Texas Supreme Court in Reynolds Land &Cattle Co. v. McCabe, 12 S.W. 165 (Tex.1888)?

What’s really going on? Does SB 6 (2017  85(1) | TX ) use of “land use regulations” mean that fines can be imposed?

Corridor News | Sen. Campbell Requests AG Opinion On San Antonio’s Annexation Proposition 

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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 unfair situation when a deep pocketed private company uses eminent domain
  • Landowners are paying for lawyers and that’s not factored into court awards
  • What about the costs to re-arranging farming and ranching activities to schedule around pipeline construction?

He also suggests this reading:

With The Largest Oil Find In History in West Texas, Are Eminent Domain Laws Fair?” by Thure Cannon of the Texas Pipeline Association

“Texas Landowners Subsidize Pipelines and Powerlines” by Brian McLaughlin, Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association director

 

San Angelo Live Opinion | The Race to Build Pipelines from the Permian to the Gulf Coast is Trampling over Landowners’ Rights

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

Property Rights. Beach Access. Repercussions in Florida.

In response to changes in beach access in Walton County Florida, a letter to the editor by G. Brint Ryan offers:

  • “allow public beachgoers to trespass on real estate”
  • “The county’s claims that they can simply identify a beach and deem it suitable for public use without fair compensation for the actual property owners are two-faced and un-American.”
  • “County officials are double dipping on the use of beachfront property at the expense of the people who have invested in their county”

Raises 4 Specific problems by designating privat eland pulic beach accesSL

  • ignores fundamental property rights
  •  deprives homeowners of privacy
  • lowers the value of their homes
  • potentially puts their homes in harms’ way

Walton Sun | Respect Private Property Rights