Bills are starting to pop out on land use issues, and once again there are topics coming up that have not had much discussion by land use interests.

HB85 – Eminent Domain Amendments – this bill would add parks to the list of things that government cannot use the power of eminent domain to acquire property for.  First trails, now parks.  Hmmm…

HB95 – Landscaping Requirement Prohibition – this bill would prohibit cities, counties, homeowners associations, and mobile home park owners from requiring property owners to plant and maintain grass and sod.  Obviously a water conservation measure, which begs the question, what else may be coming?  Interesting.

This is only the beginning, folks.