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Fear And Loathing: Combating Speculation In Local Communities, Ngai Pindell
Fear And Loathing: Combating Speculation In Local Communities, Ngai Pindell
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Local governments commonly respond to economic and social pressures on property by using their legal power to regulate land uses. These local entities enact regulations that limit property development and use to maintain attractive communities and orderly growth. This Article argues that government entities should employ their expansive land use powers to limit investor speculation in local markets by restricting the resale of residential housing for three years. Investor speculation, and the upward pressure it places on housing prices, threatens the availability of affordable housing as well as the development of stable neighborhoods. Government regulation of investor speculation mirrors existing, …
Icons And Aliens: Law, Aesthetics, And Environmental Change, Scott Schrader
Icons And Aliens: Law, Aesthetics, And Environmental Change, Scott Schrader
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Icons and Aliens: Law, Aesthetics, and Environmental Change by John J. Costonis
Review, David L. Callies
Review, David L. Callies
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Review of Public Planning and Control of Urban and Land Development, Cases and Materials by Donald G. Hagman
Evolving Judicial Attitudes Toward Local Government Land Use Control, Terrance Sandalow
Evolving Judicial Attitudes Toward Local Government Land Use Control, Terrance Sandalow
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The year 1967 begins the second half-century of zoning in the United States. The first comprehensive zoning ordinance was adopted by New York City in 1916. In the fifty years that have elapsed, zoning has become, notwithstanding a growing disenchantment with it on the part of planners, the most widely employed technique of land use control in the United States. At the present time only Houston, of all the major cities in the United States, lacks a zoning ordinance. And, though I have not obtained precise figures, we are all familiar with the increasingly large per centage of small municipalities, …
Mandelker: Green Belts And Urban Growth, Curtis J. Berger
Mandelker: Green Belts And Urban Growth, Curtis J. Berger
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Green Belts and Urban Growth. By Daniel R. Mandelker