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Invisible Businessman: Undermining Black Enterprise With Land Use Rules, Stephen Clowney
Invisible Businessman: Undermining Black Enterprise With Land Use Rules, Stephen Clowney
Stephen Clowney
This Article is an attempt to better understand and address the feeble rate of self-employment in African-American neighborhoods. My animating thesis is that black business lags, at least in part, because commentators have overlooked a key constraint on African-American entrepreneurship: land use regulation. In both the legal academy and in the halls of government, scholars have failed to understand how land use rules restrict commercial development in minority communities. More specifically, the literature has never acknowledged that zoning - the process of dividing an entire municipality into districts and designating permitted uses for each area - sharply limits the formation …
A Walk Along Willard: A Revised Look At Land Use Coordination In Pre-Zoning New Haven, Stephen Clowney
A Walk Along Willard: A Revised Look At Land Use Coordination In Pre-Zoning New Haven, Stephen Clowney
Stephen Clowney
This paper seeks to forge a richer understanding of the costs and benefits of zoning. To accomplish its goal, this piece undertakes a small-scale, block-by-block examination of New Haven, Connecticut before the advent of modern zoning systems. This Note quantitatively demonstrates the serious tradeoffs between government regulation and strong private property rights, and concludes that previous studies of New Haven have oversimplified the knotty problems posed by land use regulation.