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Initiative thrown out for lack of signatures
Category: Property Rights · State: Arizona · Source: Tuscon Explorer
Measure seeks to allow state to sell land to local governments at market value Arizona Secretary of State Jan Brewer last Friday disqualified Proposition 103 — the “Conserving Arizona’s Water and Land Initiative” — from appearing on the Nov. 4 ballot. Proponents of the measure seek to reform the Arizona State Land Department and how its holdings are managed and sold. According to the state constitution, the land department has to put lands up for sale at public auction. The initiative would change that, allowing the state to sell the lands directly to local governments for purposes of conservation. The measure also would have set aside 570,000 acres of the state land department’s 9 million acres for permanent protection. But the measure lacked the minimum number of signatures to make it on the ballot, according to Brewer.
Group Opposes North Dakota Hunting Proposal
Category: Property Rights · State: North Dakota · Source: Houston Chronicle
Game preserve owners are campaigning against a proposed North Dakota ballot measure that would eliminate so-called high-fence hunting, saying a ban would violate their property rights. "The bottom line is that preserve hunting is not for everyone," said Wayne Laaveg, who owns an elk farm near Edinburg. "But citizens should have the right to choose where they want to hunt." Supporters of the initiative say it's unethical to shoot a fenced-in animal.
Group Forms PAC Challenging City's BMR Standards
Category: Property Rights · State: California · Source: Morgan Hill Times, Morgan Hill, CA
A group of concerned home builders, real estate agents, land owners and purportedly seniors, teachers and other moderate-income makers, too, have formed a Political Action Committee and plan to circulate a petition asking voters to approve a ballot measure to decrease the number of affordable housing units. Real estate broker John Telfer, a leader of the group, said he and other members of the PAC, under the name of "Citizens For a Balanced Community," claim that Measure C, the city's growth-control initiative passed in 2004, doesn't give enough home buying options to moderate-income earners, while very low- and low-income wage earners buy homes they can't afford in the long run.
Opinion: Use initiative procedure to toss out 40B
Category: Property Rights · State: Massachusetts · Source: South Coast Today
The Standard-Times editorialized last week that instead of repealing the "affordable housing" provision of Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 40B, we should fix it. It is essentially the "don't throw out the baby with the bath water" argument. Unfortunately, the Legislature has had 40 years to "fix" 40B, but has instead repeatedly chosen to turn a tin ear to its constituents.
County projects clear first hurdle
Category: Property Rights · State: Oregon · Source: Argus Observer
The Malheur County Court spent most of its regular session Wednesday preparing for some of its meetings next month, but the elected board also decided to continue a public hearing on a proposal to expand the Malheur County enterprise zone until Dec. 12 and sifted through Measure 37 land-use claims court members will settle at meetings Dec. 5 and Dec. 12.
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