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Litigating Ethics Issues In Land Use: 2000 Trends And Decisions, Patricia E. Salkin
Litigating Ethics Issues In Land Use: 2000 Trends And Decisions, Patricia E. Salkin
Patricia E. Salkin
No abstract provided.
Smart Growth At Century’S End: The State Of The States, Patricia E. Salkin
Smart Growth At Century’S End: The State Of The States, Patricia E. Salkin
Patricia E. Salkin
No abstract provided.
They Do Teach That In Law School: Incorporating Best Practices Into Land Use Law, Patricia E. Salkin
They Do Teach That In Law School: Incorporating Best Practices Into Land Use Law, Patricia E. Salkin
Patricia E. Salkin
This article, prepared as a follow-up to Salkin & Nolon, Practically Grounded: Convergence of Land Use Pedagogy and Best Practice, 60 J.Legal Education 519 (2011), describes how practice-based assignments can supplement the traditional casebook method of instruction to meet goals and measure outcome assessments for students in the course. The article is based on my own course goals and explains how each assignment relates to individual outcome assessments.
Social Networking And Land Use Planning And Regulation: Practical Benefits, Pitfalls And Ethical Considerations, Patricia E. Salkin
Social Networking And Land Use Planning And Regulation: Practical Benefits, Pitfalls And Ethical Considerations, Patricia E. Salkin
Patricia E. Salkin
This article explores how social networking sites have been used or might be used in the land use context. Part I focuses on the use of social networking for land use planning and zoning. It includes a discussion of the pros and cons of the use of social networking sites to present public information and to gather public input and invite general participation in the process, as well as to provide notice to the public of forthcoming government decision-making. This section offers concrete examples of how this technology is currently being used in the land use context. Part II focuses …
Walking The Tightrope: Balancing Conservation, Local Growth, And The Uncertainty Of Rural Development, Michael A. Powell
Walking The Tightrope: Balancing Conservation, Local Growth, And The Uncertainty Of Rural Development, Michael A. Powell
Michael A Powell
Economic development is a complex issue, and placing it in a rural context complicates it further, primarily due to issues with local governance and the difficulty in defining the term “rural.” The result is that economic development policies often ignore development in rural areas, and development in those areas becomes uncoordinated and unproductive. One exception is the Growth Management Act (GMA) enacted by the State of Washington, which established a rural development regime that decentralized planning but retained regional and statewide oversight. This paper uses a lawsuit filed against one of the GMA’s regional boards as a case study to …
Land Use Regulation: It Just Gets Worse, Michael Lewyn
Land Use Regulation: It Just Gets Worse, Michael Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
Some commentators treat suburban sprawl (by which I mean automobile-dependent land development) as the result of the free market at work. This article reviews City Rules, by urban planning professor Emily Talen. In this book, Talen shows not only how zoning and similar land use regulations generate automobile-dependent suburban sprawl, but also how these regulations have become stricter, more pro-sprawl, and more complex over time. Talen proposes to reform these regulations through municipal codes that promote more walkable, less automobile-dependent development.