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Deals In The Heartland: Renewable Energy Projects, Local Resistance, And How Law Can Help, Christiana Ochoa Jan 2023

Deals In The Heartland: Renewable Energy Projects, Local Resistance, And How Law Can Help, Christiana Ochoa

Articles by Maurer Faculty

Informed by original empirical research conducted in the Midwestern United States, this Article provides a rich and textured understanding of the rapidly emerging opposition to renewable energy projects. Beyond the Article’s urgent practical contributions, it also examines the importance of formalism and formality in contracts and complicates current understandings.

Rural communities in every windblown and sun-drenched region of the United States are enmeshed in legal, political, and social conflicts related to the country’s rapid transition to renewable energy. Organized local opposition has foreclosed millions of acres from renewable energy development, impeding national and state-level commitments to achieving renewable energy targets …


Zoning For Families, Sara C. Bronin Jan 2020

Zoning For Families, Sara C. Bronin

Indiana Law Journal

Is a group of eight unrelated adults and three children living together and sharing meals, household expenses, and responsibilities—and holding themselves out to the world to have long-term commitments to each other—a family? Not according to most zoning codes—including that of Hartford, Connecticut, where the preceding scenario presented itself a few years ago. Zoning, which is the local regulation of land use, almost always defines family, limiting those who may live in a dwelling unit to those who satisfy the zoning code’s definition. Often times, this definition is drafted in a way that excludes many modern living arrangements and preferences. …


Municipal Zoning Restrictions On Adult Entertainment: Young, Its Progeny, Indianapolis' Commercial Special Exceptions Ordinance,, Kenneth L. Turchi Jan 1983

Municipal Zoning Restrictions On Adult Entertainment: Young, Its Progeny, Indianapolis' Commercial Special Exceptions Ordinance,, Kenneth L. Turchi

Indiana Law Journal

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Consistency With Adopted Land Use Plans As A Standard Of Judicial Review: The Case Against, A. Dan Tarlock Jan 1975

Consistency With Adopted Land Use Plans As A Standard Of Judicial Review: The Case Against, A. Dan Tarlock

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Preventing Subdivision Control Evasion In Indiana Apr 1965

Preventing Subdivision Control Evasion In Indiana

Indiana Law Journal

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How Small A House? -- Zoning For Minimum Space Requirements, Val Nolan Jr., Frank E. Horack Jr. Jan 1954

How Small A House? -- Zoning For Minimum Space Requirements, Val Nolan Jr., Frank E. Horack Jr.

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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