Tag: Property rights

Janelle Irwin TaylorApril 22, 2019
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Local historic designation seems to have become the city’s latest Achilles heel. It used to be the Pier, but that’s under construction and nearing completion. Residents used to hurl themselves into turmoil over the Tampa Bay Rays and the team’s stadium debacle, but, now, that too has gone quiet. The latest controversy splitting St. Pete […]

Scott PowersMarch 21, 2017
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The move to strip cities and counties of their authority to explicitly regulate vacation rental homes got approval of another Florida Senate committee Tuesday despite impassioned pleas from several local government representatives that the bill could expand what they see as emerging community chaos. Sen. Greg Steube, sponsor of Senate Bill 188, defended the measure […]

Phil AmmannFebruary 8, 2016
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First of three parts Floridians consider property rights to be sacrosanct. Indeed, our state constitution extends further than most by expressly declaring the rights to “acquire, possess and protect property” as basic and inalienable. Unfortunately, our actions over the last three decades in one specific area have not lived up to this promise. This area […]


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