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When Conditions Go Bad: An Examination Of The Problems Inherent In The Conditional Use Permitting System, Jacob Green
When Conditions Go Bad: An Examination Of The Problems Inherent In The Conditional Use Permitting System, Jacob Green
BYU Law Review
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Public Lands And The Federal Government's Compact-Based "Duty To Dispose": A Case Study Of Utah's H.B.148–The Transfer Of Public Lands Act, Donald J. Kochan
Public Lands And The Federal Government's Compact-Based "Duty To Dispose": A Case Study Of Utah's H.B.148–The Transfer Of Public Lands Act, Donald J. Kochan
BYU Law Review
Recent legislation passed in March 2012 in the State of Utah—the “Transfer of Public Lands Act and Related Study,” (“TPLA”) also commonly referred to as House Bill 148 (“H.B. 148”)—has demanded that the federal government, by December 31, 2014, “extinguish title” to certain public lands that the federal government currently holds (totaling an estimated more than 20 million acres). It also calls for the transfer of such acreage to the State and establishes procedures for the development of a management regime for this increased state portfolio of land holdings resulting from the transfer. The State of Utah claims that the …
Reliance In Land Use Law, Kenneth A. Stahl
Reliance In Land Use Law, Kenneth A. Stahl
BYU Law Review
For generations, Americans have tapped their life savings and assumed huge amounts of debt in order to achieve the American dream of owning their own home. Though investing so heavily in a single asset is a rather risky move on its face, buyers have been induced to purchase homes by a slew of public policies, most notably zoning ordinances that buffer single-family neighborhoods against an invasion of unwanted uses. As a result, homeowners have a fairly convincing argument that they possess some sort of vested reliance interest in the existing zoning of their neighborhoods that should prevent municipal authorities from …