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The Zoning Straitjacket: The Freezing Of American Neighborhoods Of Single-Family Houses, Robert Ellickson
The Zoning Straitjacket: The Freezing Of American Neighborhoods Of Single-Family Houses, Robert Ellickson
Indiana Law Journal
Municipal zoning practices profoundly shape urban life in the United States. In regions such as Silicon Valley, regulatory barriers to residential construction have helped raise house prices to roughly ten times the national median. These astronomic prices have prompted some households to move to places, such as Texas, where housing is far cheaper. I have been engaged in an empirical study of zoning practices in Silicon Valley, Greater New Haven, and Greater Austin. This Article presents one of my central findings, induced from those metropolitan areas and elsewhere: local zoning politics typically freezes land uses in an established neighborhood of …
Municipal Zoning Restrictions On Adult Entertainment: Young, Its Progeny, Indianapolis' Commercial Special Exceptions Ordinance,, Kenneth L. Turchi
Municipal Zoning Restrictions On Adult Entertainment: Young, Its Progeny, Indianapolis' Commercial Special Exceptions Ordinance,, Kenneth L. Turchi
Indiana Law Journal
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Political Markets And Community Self-Determination: Competing Judicial Models Of Local Government Legitimacy, Frank I. Michelman
Political Markets And Community Self-Determination: Competing Judicial Models Of Local Government Legitimacy, Frank I. Michelman
Indiana Law Journal
This article is a significantly revised version of the Harris Lectures delivered in April, 1977 at the Indiana University School of Law of Bloomington.