Category: Smart Growth

Conservation Easements: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, by Dana Joel Gattuso

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Introduction Conservation easements, as we know them today, are a fairly recent approach to land conservation. As government acquisitions and regulatory restrictions on land use have become prohibitively invasive, costly, and ineffective, governments have looked to conservation easements as a ...
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America’s Historical and Natural Legacy Study Act: Congress Continues to Feed Overstuffed Park Service

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From Peyton Knight: On Wednesday, members of the House Natural Resources Committee will vote on the "America's Historical and Natural Legacy Study Act" (H.R. 3998), a massive bill that would direct the National Park Service to "study" the prospects of ...
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House Passes Massive Heritage Area Bill, But Not Without Controversy

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Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1483, the "Celebrating America's Heritage Act." The bill would create six new national heritage areas, including the controversial Journey Through Hallowed Ground heritage area, and increase federal funding for nine existing heritage ...
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Congress Votes to Line Special Interest Pockets, Threaten Local Rule

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Washington, D.C. - Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the "Celebrating America's Heritage Act" (H.R. 1483) which would send over $135 million of federal pork to special interest groups in select members' districts.  The bill would create six new ...
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Celebrating America’s Heritage Act Wins in House Committee in Mostly Party Line Vote

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An update on this week's action by the House Resources Committee on the Celebrating America's Heritage Act, a step toward federal zoning (with pork attached). Peyton Knight contributes this update: On Wednesday, the House Natural Resources Committee passed the Celebrating ...
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Pushing Pork

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Rep. Raul Grijalva's "Celebrating America's Heritage Act," which would better have been titled "In Praise of Pork," will be voted on Wednesday in the House Resources Committee. Our press release: Congressional Self-Dealing Alive and Well Legislation that Would Enrich Select ...
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Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area Act Dies – For Now

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Peyton Knight applauds one of the last non-acts, but wise decisions, of the 109th Congress: Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area Act Dies With 109th Congress Washington, D.C. - Despite a furious, last-minute charge from anti-property rights lobbyists, Congress ...
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Smart Growth Legislation Discriminates Against Less Affluent Homeowners

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The Las Vegas Review Journal asks: "...what exactly is smart growth, who's behind it and how does it affect local property owners?" Reporter Hubble Smith's answer includes quotations from a Capital Research Center report by James Dellinger and the National ...
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Congress May Be a Lame Duck, But National Heritage Area Proposal Still Lives

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We're told Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) is going to try to get his National Heritage Area legislation through Congress during the lame duck session. We worry that the National Heritage Area plan could harm property rights and inappropriately increase federal ...
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Journey Through Hallowed Ground Debated in House Committee

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Our Peyton Knight testified Thursday in the House Resources Committee Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands about the impact on property rights of the Allen-Wolf proposed "Journey Through Hallowed Ground" National Heritage Area. The Committee is chaired by ...
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