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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 …
An Empirical Look At Churches In The Zoning Process, Stephen Clowney
An Empirical Look At Churches In The Zoning Process, Stephen Clowney
Stephen Clowney
Using data from New Haven, Connecticut, this study attempts to examine empirically whether churches face discrimination in the zoning context. Specifically, in this paper I scrutinize local government records to determine whether religious institutions are treated fairly in the zoning appeals process. This study contributes to the ongoing discussion over the regulation of religious land uses by answering two questions. First, to what extent does the Board of Zoning Appeals treat churches differently from secular applicants? Second, are there disparities between the fates of small religious sects and mainstream denominations in applications for zoning exemptions? My research casts some doubts …
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.