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Courts should stop cities from evading property rights laws

  As usual our royal government masters don't obey the laws they themselves passed to protect us serfs from them.

According to this article 6 years ago Arizona passed a law requiring city governments to pay property owners when they pass messy yard laws that reduce the value of your property.

As expected our royal government rulers are not obeying their law.

Of course most of the silly messy yard laws that are passed are blatantly unconstitutional. Did you really expect the same people that pass these unconstitutional laws to obey another silly law that requires them to compensate property owners when they pass unconstitutional messy yard laws???

Of course not!!!!

That is kind of like expecting a bank robber to obey the gun control laws which make it illegal for criminals to have guns.

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Courts should stop cities from evading property rights laws

Posted on April 24, 2013 | Author: Christina Sandefur

Just over six years ago, Arizona voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 207, one of the nation’s strongest protections for property rights, which requires governments to pay property owners when regulations reduce their property values.

But cities across Arizona are skirting the law to avoid compensating property owners. A recent example is the City of Sedona’s attempt to circumvent Prop. 207 by masquerading a property regulation as a health and safety ordinance, arguing it is exempt from the law. Thanks in part to the Goldwater Institute’s legal work, the courts saw through the façade and ruled that cities can’t avoid Prop. 207 by merely claiming to advance public health without offering any evidence.

Now, the City of Flagstaff is arguing that property owners should have less time to sue for just compensation. Unfortunately, the Court of Appeals has sided with the city and against the intent of the voters, effectively shortening the deadline to sue under Prop. 207 by three months and blocking property owners from enforcing their rights in court.

This isn’t the first time that Flagstaff has ignored Prop. 207. The city previously imposed an extra pre-suit requirement on property owners, making the Prop. 207 claim process burdensome, confusing, and virtually unenforceable. It took the legislature’s intervention to rescue property owners, passing a corrective law drafted by the Goldwater Institute to ensure property owners have their day in court.

Individuals seeking to protect their rights under Prop. 207 should not have to visit the legislature every time cities come up with an inventive way to sidestep the law. The Goldwater Institute, which has been more active and effective than any other organization in enforcing property rights protections under Prop. 207, filed a brief asking the Supreme Court to hear this case and send a strong signal to cities that they can’t make end runs around Arizona voters.

 
 

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