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Legal Limits On Development Exactions: Responding To Nollan And Dolan, Mark W. Cordes
Legal Limits On Development Exactions: Responding To Nollan And Dolan, Mark W. Cordes
Northern Illinois University Law Review
Over the last thirty years local governments have increasingly relied on development exactions as a funding source for land use development. Faced with shrinking budgets and the need to provide services attendant to growth, cities and counties have used the development approval process to require developers to provide both land and money to offset the perceived costs that development places on a community. These exactions might be required at any stage of development requiring government approval, but present the same choice to developers: make the required contribution if you want to proceed with development. Although exactions might take a variety …
Park Districts Coping With Environmental Liability And Environmental Responsibility In The Nineties, Catherine Nichols
Park Districts Coping With Environmental Liability And Environmental Responsibility In The Nineties, Catherine Nichols
Northern Illinois University Law Review
This article examines the special concerns that park districts must cope with as environmental enforcement efforts have been broadened to include local governmental bodies. The author analyzes the impact of environmental regulations on park districts and concludes that park districts need to strictly enforce risk management programs to minimize environmental response costs.
Illinois Home Rule And Taxation: A New Approach To Local Government Enabling Authority, James M. Banovetz, Thomas W. Kelty
Illinois Home Rule And Taxation: A New Approach To Local Government Enabling Authority, James M. Banovetz, Thomas W. Kelty
Northern Illinois University Law Review
This Article examines and assesses the use of the home rule powers which were granted to local governments by the 1970 Constitution. Focusing primarily on the power of taxation, the Article notes that the use of the home rule powers has been restrained and generally successful. The Article points to narrow judicial reactions, however, which may conflict with the apparent intent of the constitution's drafters to grant broad authority to local government under the home rule powers.