{"id":353,"date":"2015-09-10T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2015\/09\/10\/tppf-annexation-in-san-antonio-is-a-property-grab-4-reasons-to-pass-annexation-reform\/"},"modified":"2015-09-10T21:15:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T21:15:00","slug":"tppf-annexation-in-san-antonio-is-a-property-grab-4-reasons-to-pass-annexation-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/tppf-annexation-in-san-antonio-is-a-property-grab-4-reasons-to-pass-annexation-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"TPPF: Annexation in San Antonio is a Property Grab. 4 Reasons to Pass Annexation Reform."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pointing to a new forced annexation of 87 square miles and 52,000 Texans in San Antonio, the Texas Public Policy Foundation proposes passage of annexation reform.<\/p>\n<p>TPPF backed \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.state.tx.us\/BillLookup\/History.aspx?LegSess=84R&amp;Bill=SB1639\" style=\"color:rgb(126,206,253);text-decoration:none;font-family:'Droid Sans', sans-serif;\">SB 1639<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.state.tx.us\/BillLookup\/History.aspx?LegSess=84R&amp;Bill=HB2221\" style=\"color:rgb(126,206,253);text-decoration:none;font-family:'Droid Sans', sans-serif;\">HB 2221<\/a>\u00a0from the 2015 Texas Legislature. These\u00a0were good reforms for these 4\u00a0reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;growing government spending is not a reasonable justification for trampling on someone\u2019s private property rights&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Reform needs to include\u00a0cities providing\u00a0&#8220;a written contract for services shown in at least two public hearings&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Reforms must include a\u00a0required tapproval by a majority of residents<\/li>\n<li>Local governments should not &#8220;impose their taxes, debts and big-government structures on an unwilling populace&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.texaspolicy.com\/blog\/detail\/san-antonios-aggressive-land-grab\">TPPF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pointing to a new forced annexation of 87 square miles and 52,000 Texans in San Antonio, the Texas Public Policy Foundation proposes passage of annexation reform.<\/p>\n<p>TPPF backed \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.state.tx.us\/BillLookup\/History.aspx?LegSess=84R&amp;Bill=SB1639\" style=\"color:rgb(126,206,253);text-decoration:none;font-family:'Droid Sans', sans-serif;\">SB 1639<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.state.tx.us\/BillLookup\/History.aspx?LegSess=84R&amp;Bill=HB2221\" style=\"color:rgb(126,206,253);text-decoration:none;font-family:'Droid Sans', sans-serif;\">HB 2221<\/a>\u00a0from the 2015 Texas Legislature. These\u00a0were good reforms for these 4\u00a0reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;growing government spending is not a reasonable justification for trampling on someone\u2019s private property rights&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Reform needs to include\u00a0cities providing\u00a0&#8220;a written contract for services shown in at least&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,43,14,37,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-legislation","category-annexation","category-legislation-trend","category-local-government-trend","category-private-property-rights","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","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=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}