{"id":139,"date":"2015-01-08T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2015\/01\/08\/tppf-eminent-domain-recommendations-2015\/"},"modified":"2015-01-08T22:45:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T22:45:00","slug":"tppf-eminent-domain-recommendations-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/tppf-eminent-domain-recommendations-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"TPPF: Eminent Domain Recommendations 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div title=\"Page 143\">\n<p>TPPF&#8217;s legislative recommendations for eminent domain include:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div title=\"Page 139\">\n<ul>\n<li>Grant property owners the right to repurchase their property if the initial use of a property acquired from them through eminent domain is not the public use for which the property was acquired.<\/li>\n<li>Ban the initial use of property acquired through eminent domain for any use other than the use for which it was acquired.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Change all references to in statute to \u201cpublic purposes,\u201d \u201cpublic purpose,\u201d or simply \u201cpurpose\u201d when authorizing the use of eminent domain to \u201cpublic uses\u201d or \u201cpublic use.\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Texas Real Private Property Rights Preservation Act should be amended to apply to municipalities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>The numerical threshold of what qualifies as a taking under the Act\u2014<br \/>\n\ta 25% reduction of the market value of the affected private real property\u2014is an arbitrary number that should be reduced or eliminated.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Condemnors should have the ability to issue waivers as an alternative to financial compensation. Those waivers should specifically mention which property rights are being reinstated per the waiver. Doing so will allow the waiver to \u201crun with the land\u201d for future owners, as well as prevent munici- palities from spending more.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 145\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:MinionPro;\">The next 3 recommendations apply to common carrier and Denbury Issues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:MinionPro;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;\">Amend statute to shift the burden of proof in all property rights cases from the land owner to the condemnor. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:MinionPro;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;\">Reduce judicial deference to the decisions of executive agencies and local governments. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:MinionPro;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;\">Restore the constitutional right to both own and use property. Current case law, as held by the Texas Supreme, says, \u201cProperty owners do not acquire a constitutionally protected vested right in property uses.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div title=\"Page 141\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.texaspolicy.com\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2015-16-LegeGuide-withtabs.pdf\">TPPF<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div title=\"Page 143\">\n<p>TPPF&#8217;s legislative recommendations for eminent domain include:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div title=\"Page 139\">\n<ul>\n<li>Grant property owners the right to repurchase their property if the initial use of a property acquired from them through eminent domain is not the public use for which the property was acquired.<\/li>\n<li>Ban the initial use of property acquired through eminent domain for any use other than the use for which it was acquired.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Change all references to in&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,13,23,6,28,2,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-legislation","category-activism","category-inverse-condemnation","category-pipelines-common-carriers","category-private-company","category-private-property-rights","category-process-procedure","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}