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An Easterner's Perspective On Colorado Land Use Issues, E. F. Roberts

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Land use planning all too easily can escalate into an Aristophanic cloud-cuckoo-land inhabited by two strange breeds. First, there is a species of lawyers whose verbal agility tends to divert attention away from the real issues at hand. Second, there are the cartographers whose urge to produce maps can actually have a chilling effect on efforts to plan because these maps are perceived as attempts by “the authorities” to corral the public into zones fashioned in the manner of a Rorschach test. An effort will be made here to steer a course between these extremes and to deal with planning …

Statewide Land Use Plan For R.I., Chester Smolski

Smolski Texts

"The Rhode Island section of the American Institute of Planners has called it "the most significant single item of legistlation in the history of land planning in this state," and yet there is the real possibility that this far reaching measure may not be introduced for enactment in this session of the General Assembly."

Provisional Series 3 Projections: Population, Housing, Employment, And Land Uses - San Francisco Bay Region, Association Of Bay Area Governments

California Agencies

No abstract provided.

The Higher Consciousness Of Plans And Planners: Lessons From Israel And Nepa, Rachel Alterman, John W. Ragsdale Jr

Faculty Works

In the United States and in much of the Western world, private economic initiative and private property are accorded sufficient pro­tection-either constitutionally or statutorily-to hamper the effi­cacy of public planning and implementation. Political fragmenta­tion in metropolitan areas, extensive private land holdings, and constitutional entitlement to a reasonable economic return from regulated land insures that, in the United States, both land use plans and the regulations implementing them will be incompletely realized.

Beleaguered Western planners, then, weary from ongoing battles with neighboring, egocentric communities and legions of specula­ tors, developers and profiteers, might be expected to look with envy at the …

The Minnesota Recreational Use Statute: A Preliminary Analysis, Donald H. Gjerdingen

Articles by Maurer Faculty

In the past twenty-four years, Minnesota and forty-two other states in an effort to ease the growing burden on public parks and campgrounds have enacted recreational use statutes to encourage private landowners to open their land to the public for recreational use. As incentive, the statutes offer the landowners a limited form of tort immunity if they gratuitously allow entry for recreational use. Despite their simplicity, the possible ramifications of the statutes in the area of premises liability law are far-reaching. This Note analyzes the Minnesota recreational use statute and suggests a theoretical framework for its interpretation.