43. Building Permits
Residential landowners should be required to get city permission or ‘permits’ only for property or structural changes that either potentially affect the safety or property of neighbors (such a placing...
View Article44. Eminent Domain
The owner of property acquired through the power of eminent domain should be compensated with more than the fair market value of the property. Depending on several things like the willingness of the...
View Article45. Neighborhood Fencing
The maximum allowable height for fencing around private property should be 8 feet. This fence height would be allowable only beginning 5 feet further back behind the minimum allowable setback from the...
View Article46. Residential Side Yard Buffers
All residential properties with frontages of at least 20 meters (60 feet) should have side yard buffers of 3 meters (9 feet) on each side of their property adjoining other residential properties....
View Article47. Threshold for Requiring Changes under Disability Laws
Disability laws should require all new and (during the next major remodeling) existing commercial and residential structures to be changed to accommodate those with disabilities only if the proposed...
View Article48. Prohibit Government Mandates that Homes be Brought Up to Disability or...
No level of government should have a right to require that private existing residential properties be made accessible to people with disabilities at any time, including during a sale of the property....
View Article49. Building Guidelines in Hurricane Prone Areas
All structures in hurricane prone areas, specifically the coastal counties in which at least part lie within 100 miles of the ocean in the states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida,...
View Article50. Public Restroom Requirement
Businesses, public or private complexes, shopping malls, etc., with an average daily flow of over 1,000 people should be required to have at least one restroom. Areas with average daily flow rates of...
View Article51. Settling Competing Land Claims
In areas such as the Western United States, there are several locations where the ownership of the land is in question. More specifically, for example, there was an article in the USA Today newspaper...
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