The college students all lived in rental properties ...Renters pay no property taxes. Well, not directly.
The homeowners voted an 18-mill property tax on rental properties which was dedicated to the local school district. Taxpayers legally redistributing their burden to other taxpayers whose primary income is collecting rent from non-taxpayers. Not nice, but nothing new.
rules making it nearly impossible for a landlord to buy the homes of departing homeowners and convent them to rentals. I'm sure it was sold as some kind of "anti slumlord initiative."
< removing tongue from cheek > OK, your points are not nearly as heinous as they first appeared, but I'm not convinced that giving part time residents the right to impose their will on the locals rises to the level of one of the American Revolution's clarion calls.