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Portland?s Condition of Sidewalk Dedication May Constitute a Taking Requiring Compensation

By Patty Salkin

As an outgrowth of the smart growth movement, the healthy/active living movement and efforts to slow climate change, many municipalities are developing and adopting programs designed to result in more sidewalks to make communities walkable. See, http://www.smartgrowth.org/about/principles/principles.asp?prin=4&res=1024 The challenge of course, is who is going to pay for these sidewalks?  Sidewalks are an expensive proposition [...]

Full post as published by Law of the Land on February 28, 2008 (boomark / email).