Welcome to the Future!
What is happening? Short Term Rental hosts and operators serve as gateway for retailers. Retailers can showcase items in short term rentals that enhance local retail experiences. It is also an opportunity to test local products.
Why does this matter? Retailers have to think outside the box at these new short term rental customers but the partnership has merit.
Total Retail | How Retailers Can Work With Airbnbs and Other Short-Term Rental Companies
What is happening? Ohio lawsuit calls into question the constitutionality of Milford Ohio’s prohibition of non-owner occupied residential property as short-term or vacation rentals & establishing a 300ft buffer between short term rentals.
Why does this matter? A conservative leaning US Supreme Court and property rights sounds like a match.
1851 Center for Constitutional Law | MILFORD AIRBNB BAN UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Cincinnati.com | Milford homeowners file lawsuit over city’s Airbnb restrictions
What is happening? US law is based in large part on English common law. The UK Law Reform Commission has a proposal to apply property rights to digital assets. We should probably pay attention. Comments are due by November 4th.
Why does this matter? While it seems like the history of our laws and constitutional rights is large irrelevant in an era of fake news and when opinions are facts, but for the level headed legal nerds out there, this is something to read.
What is happening? NYC creates 8 million pounds of organic waste per day. To minimize rat populations, Queens took to social media to promote its composting program. Queens data showed that encouraging composting of yard waste ultimately led to composting of kitchen scraps, and compostable takeaway containers.
Why does this matter? If the 8 million pounds of organic waste go to landfills it creates methane emissions for years. As an added bonus, while the organic waste is at the curb or in its bins- it’s a welcome party for rats- fun!
Route Fifty | Curbside Composting Program Billed as Nation’s Biggest Gets Underway
What is happening? North Dakota State Representatives Rick Becker and Jeff Magrum will introduce legislation in the 2023 legislative session that will “clarify that eminent domain may not be used to procure easements for carbon dioxide pipelines and prevents landowners from being financially ruined for trying to fight it in the court system,”
Why is this important? Landowners believe in their constitutional right to their land.
How will this be important? A North Dakota property owner: “Our private property rights that are granted by the Constitution are incredibly important to us. They give us the right to protect what is ours, and in this case, we have the right to exclude others from our private property,” said Swenson.
KFYR | Landowners, legislators push back against carbon pipeline
What is happening? Iowa legislature has passed 3 Ag Gag laws to “to stop animal welfare groups from secretly filming livestock abuse.” All 3 have found to be unconstitutional infringement on free speech by the courts.
Why is this important? The most recent Ag Gag law in Iowa would have made it a “crime to trespass on a property to place a camera to record or transmit images”
How will this be important? Ag Gag laws in North Carolina, Kansas, Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming have also been found to be unconstitutional.
AP | Federal court finds 3rd Iowa ag-gag law unconstitutional
What is happening? Landowners in Virginia are appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court for relief from FERC’s granting of eminent domain authority to private pipelines.
Why is this important? Landowners across the country are fighting either the granting of eminent domain to pipelines or how those with eminent domain authority exercise it.
How will this be important? It’s been a while for an eminent domain case at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Marcellus Drilling News | Virginia Landowners Petition SCOTUS to Block MVP Eminent Domain
What is happening? Cleveland, Cleveland State University, and Case Western University are working on Artificial Intelligence (AI) to identify illegal dumping.
Why is this important? The technology would allow automatic notification to authorities when illegal dumping has occurred. The AI would compliment work of the illegal dumping task force.
How will this be important? Cleveland is participating in Accelerator for America, “a coalition of U.S. mayors that seeks and shares innovative solutions for problems commonly faced by municipalities.”
Governing | Cleveland Hopes to Crack Down on Illegal Dumping With AI
What is happening? Your property could soon be run by AI.
Why is this important? Meet the software company behind the AI: PassiveLogic. Its “software is designed to help building operators, architects, engineers, and contractors automate their systems and advance on-site intelligence to meet operational needs and environmental, social, and governance goals.”
H0w will this be important? DOE estimates that AI energy controls can reduce energy consumption for a building by as much as 29%.
What is happening? Friends of the Land is a group of Bastrop County residents that oppose a large scale solar installation that they say will involve clear cutting trees, impacting a flood zone and wildlife. The solar project is a Chapter 313 economic development project that Friends of the Land says will guarantee 1 full-time permanent job.
Why is this important? The solar project will provide 216 megawatts of energy and serve as a battery storage project.
How will this be important? The 313 tax treatment application for the project was to Elgin ISD, which has yet to make a determination.
Austonia | Local green power project opposed by groups claiming it’s environmentally unfriendly