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Food Trucks and Property Rights
The Institute for Justice (IJ) has filed a lawsuit against the city of Jacksonville, North Carolina. The city recently passed an ordinance that prohibits food trucks from any property that is within 250 feet of a restaurant or a residence. That means that 96 percent of the city is off-limits to food trucks. The law…
Preservation vs. Property Rights
More than fifty Texas governments have passed some form of historic preservation laws. Such laws typically prohibit demolition of a designated structure and mandate that any repairs or additions to a building maintain the architectural integrity of the building. Some of these ordinances allow for an historic designation to be applied to a building even…
Sell the Damn Dams
In August, the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA) announced plans to drain four lakes beginning September 16. GBRA said dewatering was necessary to avert potential failure of spillgates on the dams creating the lakes. Two other lakes have already been drained. GBRA says that it doesn’t have the funds to repair the spillgates. Property owners along…
Protecting Us from Ourselves
I recently had an interesting conversation with a liberal friend. As would be expected, we disagree on many political issues. During our conversation, she said that many people will make bad decisions, and government needs to protect them. I agree with her that many people will make bad decisions. I disagree with her that government…
Should “Corner Crossing” be Legal?
The owner of a Wyoming ranch is appealing a judge’s ruling that “corner crossing” is legal. Corner crossing is the practice of going from one parcel of “public” land to another via privately owned land. The plaintiffs in the case relied on the Unlawful Inclosure Act of 1885, which prevents a private landowner from blocking…