Recent Development: Assategue Coastal Trust, Inc. V. Schwalbach: An Applicant Must Satisfy The "Unwarranted Hardship" Standard To Be Granted A Variance; The Variance Must Have No Adverse Impact On The Environment And Conform To The Purpose Of The Critical Area Program,
2016
University of Baltimore Law
Recent Development: Assategue Coastal Trust, Inc. V. Schwalbach: An Applicant Must Satisfy The "Unwarranted Hardship" Standard To Be Granted A Variance; The Variance Must Have No Adverse Impact On The Environment And Conform To The Purpose Of The Critical Area Program, Michael Louis Brown
University of Baltimore Law Forum
The Court of Appeals of Maryland held that the Worchester County Board properly applied the “unwarranted hardship” standard and correctly granted a variance under local critical area law. Assateague Coastal Trust, Inc. v. Schwalbach, 448 Md. 112, 140, 136 A.3d 866, 882 (2016). The court held that the variance would not have an adverse impact on the environment and the development was in conformity with the Critical Area Program’s purpose and intent. Schwalbach, 448 Md. at 143-44, 136 A.3d at 883.
Phoenix Within A Phoenix: Google Campus Warsaw And The Fascinating, Intentional Rebirth Of Warsaw’S Praga District,
2016
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Phoenix Within A Phoenix: Google Campus Warsaw And The Fascinating, Intentional Rebirth Of Warsaw’S Praga District, Leila Lawlor
Scholarly Articles
The Praga district of Warsaw has been experiencing a rebirth. This phoenix district, lying within the eastern central part of Warsaw, is experiencing a period of rapid growth and revitalization. Five years ago Praga was thought of as crime-ridden and impoverished, but the area’s low rents and large, historic spaces have started attracting creative types – web designers, artists, musicians and others. In June 2014, Praga landed a windfall when internet giant Google announced plans to build a center for technology startup companies in the district. The location of Google Campus Warsaw will undoubtedly have beneficial effects on employment and …
Spaces For Sharing: Micro-Units Amid The Shift From Ownership To Access,
2016
Suffolk University Law School
Spaces For Sharing: Micro-Units Amid The Shift From Ownership To Access, John Infranca
Fordham Urban Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Varying The Variance: How New York City Can Solve Its Housing Crisis And Optimize Land Use To Serve The Public Interest,
2016
Brooklyn Law School
Varying The Variance: How New York City Can Solve Its Housing Crisis And Optimize Land Use To Serve The Public Interest, Nathan T. Boone
Brooklyn Law Review
As Millennials repopulate American cities and seek jobs in creative industries, housing affordability has risen to the forefront of urban policy battles. Major conflicts exist between homeowners, renters, municipal governments, and growing industries regarding the proper way to grapple with an influx of new capital, both financial and human. New York City is a prime example of this problem. Housing cost increases have exceeded income increases, leaving a large percentage of New Yorkers “rent burdened.” This note seeks to examine a likely cause of the present problem: zoning and variance systems that limit the ability of private land owners to …
Land Shark At The Door? Why And How States Should Regulate Landmen,
2016
University of South Carolina - Columbia
Land Shark At The Door? Why And How States Should Regulate Landmen, Ann M. Eisenberg
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Superiority Of Remediation Liens: A Cure To The Virus Of Blight,
2016
Nova Southeastern University
Superiority Of Remediation Liens: A Cure To The Virus Of Blight, Marilyn Uzdavines
University of Baltimore Law Review
Blight in a neighborhood is like a virus that spreads throughout the community. If left unchecked, that virus will destroy the community. In cities like Detroit, the spread of blight has ruined the economy and led to a dramatic plunge in population and the underfunding of city services. Blighted communities have transformed into vast swathes of abandoned properties that attract crime and create hazardous conditions to anyone who dares to remain in them. Although cities like Detroit have received exceptional media attention due to their overwhelming problems, blight continues to affect Detroit and communities in many states across the United …
Rluipa And The Limits Of Religious Institutionalism,
2016
University of Kentucky
Rluipa And The Limits Of Religious Institutionalism, Zachary A. Bray
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
What special protections, if any, should religious organizations receive from local land use controls? The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (“RLUIPA”)—a deeply flawed statute—has been a magnet for controversy since its passage in 2000. Yet until recently, RLUIPA has played little role in debates about “religious institutionalism,” a set of ideas that suggest religious institutions play a distinctive role in developing the framework for religious liberty and that they deserve comparably distinctive deference and protection. This is starting to change: RLUIPA’s magnetic affinity for controversy has begun to connect conflicts over religious land use with larger debates about …
Sharing Property,
2016
University of Colorado Law School
Sharing Property, Kellen Zale
University of Colorado Law Review
The sharing economy-the rapidly evolving sector of peer-topeer transactions epitomized by Airbnb and Uber-is the subject of heated debate about whether it is so novel that no laws apply, or whether the sharing economy should be subject to the same regulations as its analog counterparts. The debate has proved frustrating and controversial in large part because we lack a doctrinally cohesive and normatively satisfying way of talking about the underlying activities taking place in the sharing economy. In part, this is because property-sharing activities-renting your car out to a tourist for a day, paying to spend the weekend in a …
Eminent Domain And Serrated Power,
2016
Suffolk University Law School
Eminent Domain And Serrated Power, Steven Ferrey
Suffolk University Law School Faculty Works
This article provides an examination of the legal issues affecting siting of new wind projects and the ability of states to use preemptive state powers to preempt local zoning and land-use issues to circumvent local opposition to wind power siting, with detailed case studies of law in different states.
International Investment Law And The Extractive Industries Sector,
2016
Columbia Law School, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
International Investment Law And The Extractive Industries Sector, Lise Johnson, Jesse Coleman
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
Since the 1990s, international investment law has been rapidly evolving, resulting in a complex web of over 3,000 investment treaties. These treaties have been used to challenge a wide range of host state actions and inactions that have allegedly negatively affected foreign investors or investments. Those challenges, in turn, expose host states to potentially significant financial costs, and can restrict the ability of such states to maximize the benefits, and limit the environmental and social harms, that can result from the exploitation of natural resources. This briefing note provides an introduction to international investment law, with a view to assisting …
Justice Thomas's Kelo Dissent: The Perilous And Political Nature Of Public Purpose,
2016
University of Richmond
Justice Thomas's Kelo Dissent: The Perilous And Political Nature Of Public Purpose, Carol N. Brown
Law Faculty Publications
This Essay submits that the arguments that Justice Thomas constructed in his dissent were appropriately focused on the inherently political nature of the Fifth Amendment's Public Use Clause. Unlike the majority, Justice Thomas recognized that when the Supreme Court broadly interprets the public use restriction of the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause, and at the same time defers to political actors in this arena, it fundamentally abdicates its constitutional responsibility. By deferring to political actors in this area, the Court in Kelo fundamentally abdicated its responsibility and also adopted a majoritarian doctrinal approach. Further, the Court conflated political ends with constitutional …
Land Development & Commercial Real Estate Problems (Volume I): 2015-16,
2016
Osgoode Hall Law School of York University
Land Development & Commercial Real Estate Problems (Volume I): 2015-16, Morton G. Gross
Osgoode Course Casebooks
Course Number 5160
Public Access Vs. Private Property: The Struggle Of Coastal Landowners To Keep The Public Off Their Land,
2016
Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School
Public Access Vs. Private Property: The Struggle Of Coastal Landowners To Keep The Public Off Their Land, James D. Donahue
Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review
No abstract provided.
You Can't Common What You Can't See: Towards A Restorative Polycentrism In The Governance Of Our Cities,
2016
Fordham Law School
You Can't Common What You Can't See: Towards A Restorative Polycentrism In The Governance Of Our Cities, Amy Laura Cahn, Paula Z. Segal
Fordham Urban Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Urban Commons As Property Experiment: Mapping Chicago's Farms And Gardens,
2016
Fordham Law School
Urban Commons As Property Experiment: Mapping Chicago's Farms And Gardens, Nate Ela
Fordham Urban Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Linkages To The Resource Sector: The Role Of Companies, Governments, And International Development Cooperation,
2016
Columbia Law School
Linkages To The Resource Sector: The Role Of Companies, Governments, And International Development Cooperation, Columbia Center On Sustainable Investment
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
With support from GIZ, CCSI prepared a report titled "Linkages to the Resource Sector: The Role of Companies, Governments, and International Development Cooperation." It outlines options for how these stakeholders can increase the economic linkages to the extractive industries sector not only in terms of ‘breadth’ (number of linkages) but also in terms of ‘depth’ (local value added). Apart from providing the theoretical framework for linkage creation and an overview of existing literature on this topic, the study highlights successful case study examples. Recommendations are provided for the three types of stakeholders.
Enhancing The Urban Environment Through Green Infrastructure,
2016
Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University
Enhancing The Urban Environment Through Green Infrastructure, John R. Nolon
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
This Article is adapted from Chapter Seven of John R. Nolon, Protecting the Environment Through Land Use Law: Standing Ground, published by ELI Press. The book describes how localities are responding to new challenges, including the imperative that they adapt to and help mitigate climate change and create sustainable neighborhoods. This Article follows the steady advance in the use of green infrastructure in recent years, and details its value as a strategy for adapting to climate change, bettering air quality, lowering heat stress, creating greater biodiversity, conserving energy, providing ecological services, sequestering carbon, preserving and expanding habitats, enhancing aesthetics, increasing …
When Local Government Misbehaves,
2016
SJ Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
When Local Government Misbehaves, Shelley Ross Saxer
Utah Law Review
This Article addresses one of the lingering questions following the Supreme Court’s decision in Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District. In that land use case, the Court held that proposed local government monetary exactions from property owners to permit land development were subject to the same heightened scrutiny test as imposed physical exactions. The Court left unanswered the question of how broadly this heightened scrutiny should be applied to other monetary obligations imposed by the government. The Article argues that “in-lieu” exactions that are individually assessed as part of the permitting process should be treated differently than the …
Raisins And Resilience: Elaborating Home's Compensation Analysis With An Eye To Coastal Climate Change Adaptation,
2016
Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University
Raisins And Resilience: Elaborating Home's Compensation Analysis With An Eye To Coastal Climate Change Adaptation, Joshua Ulan Galperin
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
The State of New Jersey, the Borough of Harvey Cedars, and the United States Army Corps of Engineers were all preparing for an event like Hurricane Sandy years before the 2012 super-storm made landfall along the Mid-Atlantic coast. The governments began, for instance, a major dune restoration project in 2005 in order to protect the New Jersey coast from massive storm surges that could destroy homes and businesses. To carry out the effort, the local governments sought to purchase the right to build along the seaward portion of property owners' land, and would then construct roughly twenty-foot-high, thirty-foot-wide dunes. If …
Zoning Neighborhoods For Resilience: Drivers, Tools And Impacts,
2016
Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University
Zoning Neighborhoods For Resilience: Drivers, Tools And Impacts, Shelby D. Green
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
A new urban design is needed, one that if not climate-determinist, is climate-cognizant. The built environment should be structured and the natural environment must be managed and protected in a way that regards climate forces that if left unchecked will sap the energy, the very existence of the city.7 A new urban design must begin with a statement of clear ends to be achieved, be based upon authoritative scientific, legal and social principles and must be implemented with an understanding of the costs--monetary and socio-political, that are demonstrably justified in the light of the alternatives. The extravagant and pretentious historical …
