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Asheville, NC is considering new rules for short term rentals including:
The goal of the short term rental rules:
11 states are bandying about 36 pieces of legislation to gain state control over federal land management.
Supporters say the state should control land within its boundaries. Opponents, like the Center for Western Priorities issue reports entitled, “Going to Extremes: The Anti-Government Extremism Behind the Growing Movement to Seize America’s Public Lands.”
Polls say 52% support federal control over the public lands. But in these large western states, like Nevada where 85% of the land is under control of the federal government, the polls are discarded.
The most active states to gain state control over public lands: Nevada, Utah & Montana.
Eminent Domain works much differently in Mexico. The options are (1) take the negotiation or (2) Presidential decree will swallow up your land without any payment.
To that end, a group of landowners, who own land in the path of the pipleine heading toward Big Bend, accepted an offer of $750/each for a pipeline easement.
This week a Clay County Farmer reclaimed 94 acres of land he lost in a Red River boundary dispute in the 1980s with eht Bureau of Land Management.
Add West Virginia to the list of states where judges are blocking access for pre-condemnation access to land without land owner permission.
Its generally legal that condemning entities can enter land that they will condemn to survey the land. But, that general ability is being called into question by the courts.
In 2014, California trial judge put the breaks on pre-condemnation access. This week, a West Virginia judge is blocking surveyors for the Mountain Valley Pipeline project from entering land without permission.
Two 5th ward churches are in a brewing eminent domain battle over property that the Houston Housing Authority would like to develop for low income housing and a library. This story has it all- historic churches, a wheel chair bound pastor, and a city relying on recommendations from the neighborhood itself.
The churches:
The legal actions:
Let’s not forget the KY judge, who in 2014 stopped eminent domain at the trial court level because a church’s First amendment rights trump that of a government’s eminent domain authority.
A 2011 Michelle Malkin column ties Donalad Trump to eminent domain abuses. The highlights:
Officials in Tulsa, Oklahoma want to remove the statutory requirement that if landwoners at trial receive a value 10% higher than the special commissioners, then the local government has to pay the landwoner fees and expenses.
Paying attorney fees and expenses led to this comment by a Tulsa official: “That 10 percent rule is basically a pain in the neck,” Swiney said. “I think it leads to abuse. It leads to bill padding. It discourages settlement and encourages litigation.”
…”The city has never capitalized on this to bring tourism. The neighborhood where homes and businesses once stood, is now a giant weed-filled lot near the water. The proposed hotel, condo, restaurant and office complex that was supposed to be built went out the window because the development company that was awarded the contract went out of business after leveling all of the homes and businesses that were there.
This parcel is next to the property that was given to Pfizer by the city. That deal came with a 10-year tax abatement. They built an office complex on the waterfront, across the river from their main plant. They left in year nine and sold the property to General Dynamics Electric Boat division.
Many families and businesses were uprooted and forced to leave town because of the unavailability of replacement property. Shame is on the town planners for bringing this on, and shame on the Supreme Court for reinforcing their decision.”
This fall filming will being for Little Pink House, the film devoted to telling the story of Susette Kelo.
“[The producer] describes it as a classic David and Goliath story that focuses on Kelo, a single mother who had her Connecticut house seized by the city of New London and turned over to private developers. “