{"id":944,"date":"2017-12-04T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2017\/12\/04\/local-trend-code-enforcement-fines-as-passive-aggressive-takings\/"},"modified":"2017-12-04T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T19:08:00","slug":"local-trend-code-enforcement-fines-as-passive-aggressive-takings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/local-trend-code-enforcement-fines-as-passive-aggressive-takings\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Trend. Code Enforcement Fines as Passive Aggressive Takings."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The city:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Charlestown Indiana<\/p>\n<p><strong>The code enforcement fines:\u00a0<\/strong>Code enforcement violations began in the summer of 2016, after city council adopted fines that cannot be waived<\/p>\n<p><strong>The alleged goal of city leaders: <\/strong>revitalization<\/p>\n<p><strong>The court&#8217;s response to the code fines:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the fines run counter to the city code that allows for fixing violations and the waiver of fines<\/li>\n<li>city violated equal protection laws by choosing not to impose fines on the LLC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theindianalawyer.com\/articles\/45541-special-judge-halts-irrational-charlestown-code-enforcement\"><strong>Indiana Lawyer |\u00a0<\/strong>Special judge halts \u2018irrational\u2019 Charlestown code enforcement<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Charlestown Pleasant Ridge Neighborhood Association Corporation, et al. v. City of Charlestown, Indiana, Charlestown Board of Public Works and Safety<\/em>, 10C02-1701-CT-010,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The city:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Charlestown Indiana<\/p>\n<p><strong>The code enforcement fines:\u00a0<\/strong>Code enforcement violations began in the summer of 2016, after city council adopted fines that cannot be waived<\/p>\n<p><strong>The alleged goal of city leaders: <\/strong>revitalization<\/p>\n<p><strong>The court&#8217;s response to the code fines:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the fines run counter to the city code that allows for fixing violations and the waiver of fines<\/li>\n<li>city violated equal protection laws by choosing not to impose fines on the LLC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theindianalawyer.com\/articles\/45541-special-judge-halts-irrational-charlestown-code-enforcement\"><strong>Indiana Lawyer |\u00a0<\/strong>Special judge halts \u2018irrational\u2019\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,30,10,37,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blight","category-co-development","category-economic-development","category-local-government-trend","category-process-procedure","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","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=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}