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By Paul Boudreaux

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Last Entry: April 01, 2011 at 11:17:06

Sustainable Suburbia

Posted on March 03, 2011
Speaking of the suburbs, I just got this report from Houston Tomorrow (via Planetizen) by the Sustainable Cities Collective about what sounds like a very interesting conference on "The Sustainable Suburb: Reimagining the Inner Ring" at North Carolina State...

Land Use & a Mosque in London

Posted on March 02, 2011
For those interested in zoning and religious buildings, the current enforcement proceedings aiming to close down the Tablighi Jamaat mosque in London make interesting reading. While local planners are resisting the application to maintain the mosque because of traffic levels,...

Move it! "Active Design" is coming through.

Posted on March 02, 2011
Those of you teaching or interested in design guidelines may wish to check out New York City's new "Active Design Guidelines." New York City has produced a wonderful 144-page document that "focus[es] on designers' role in tackling one of the...

Long on Sustainability v. Sprawl in the Post-Public-Lands West

Posted on March 02, 2011
Jerry Long (Idaho) explores the causes of and reasons for a community's commitment to sustainable land-use planning in his recently posted Private Lands, Conflict, and Institutional Evolution in the Post-Public-Lands West, 28 Pace Env. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2011)...

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More ALPS, plus "Designing Tomorrow"

Posted on March 02, 2011
A couple of us have mentioned with eager anticipation the ALPS (Association for Law, Property, & Society) conference coming up this weekend. In only its second year, ALPS has quickly become the conference for property scholars; as I told my...

Introducing Jonathan Rosenbloom

Posted on March 01, 2011
We've had some really terrific guest bloggers here lately at the Land Use Prof Blog, giving us great contributions and ideas in a number of different areas of land use law. We now have the privilege of introducing Jonathan Rosenbloom,...

Death of the [privately-owned] City

Posted on March 01, 2011
Hello all and thanks for the welcome, Matt. I'm not a particularly morbid person, so starting with a quasi-obituary is a bit uncharacteristic. Newsweek is reporting that the "last wholly owned company town in America" is up for sale. If...

And so I take my leave...

Posted on March 01, 2011
Now that we are heralding in the month of March, my first stint at blogging is done. It was more fun than I expected and a good vehicle for me to come to terms with my land use side. Thanks...

Victory for EJ Clinic at Golden Gate

Posted on March 01, 2011
From Susan Ruthberg at Golden Gate Law: Today, in Potrero Hill, the last fossil fuel power plant in the City of San Francisco will close after a decade of legal efforts by community groups, the City of San Francisco and...

2011-- End of the Housing Crash?

Posted on February 28, 2011
Well, this might be some good news about the housing market from Simon Constable in the Wall Street Journal: Why 2011 May Be the End of the Housing Crash. Although, when you read the whole article it seems decidedly more...

Jones on Garner v. Gerrish and the Concept of "Home"

Posted on February 28, 2011
Bernie D. Jones (Suffolk) has posted Garner v. Gerrish and the Renter?s Life Estate: Teaching a New Concept of 'Home,' Faulkner University Law Review, Vol. 2, pp. 1-44, 2010. The abstract: Property law scholars have been interested in Garner v....

Federal Sustainability Program May Get the Axe

Posted on February 28, 2011
The new Sustainability Communities Initiative by HUD, DOT and EPA is barely a year old, and the House Appropriations Committee has proposed to cut its funding before it gets off the ground. You can read an interesting piece on this...

Making Comprehensive Planning Optional (in Georgia)

Posted on February 28, 2011
It's not getting much play in the media, but there is legislation moving through the Georgia legislature that would make local comprehensive planning and solid waste planning optional. Currently both are mandated by state law. Well, actually, comprehensive planning isn't...

"Densification"...

Posted on February 28, 2011
Sounds like some type of painful oral surgery, eh? Well, the good thing is that it doesn't hurt nearly that bad. In fact, for low density, auto-centric sprawl areas, the concept of densification offers a potential method for combatting the...

Teaching Outside the Box

Posted on February 27, 2011
We're now entering week 4 of the spring semester at Buffalo. I'm very excited about my classes this semster. Both of which are firsts for me. I am teaching Natural Resources Law. This is a fun course and I have...

Tribes, Land, and the Environment

Posted on February 27, 2011
I just returned from a stimulating one-day conference at American University's Washington College of Law called Tribes, Land, and the Environment. Organized by Ezra Rosser and Sarah Krakoff, it was a great mix of speakers on Indian law generally and....

Urban Ag...

Posted on February 26, 2011
Here in Montgomery, Ala we've begun a strong move toward implementing an urban agriculture program with the soon to open Hampstead Institute Downtown Farm. A myriad of regulatory issues seem to inhibit urban ag. Fortunately, we had a strong municipal...

Weekend Break: Local Hero (1983)

Posted on February 26, 2011
As I get ready for Property's land-use finale this semester, I will be making room to show a scene from one of my favorite movies of all time, Bill Forsyth's Local Hero. A mid-level oil executive (Peter Riegert) is dispatched...

Meyer on Community Participation in Environmental Cleanup Decisions

Posted on February 25, 2011
The last installment in the Cityscape trilogy is Peter Meyer's Brownfields, Risk-Based Corrective Action, and Local Communities. Here's the abstract: This article addresses the problems facing communities that suffer both environmental risks from past contamination and depressed economic activity...

ALPS Follow-Up...

Posted on February 25, 2011
Following up on Jessica's recent ALPS post, who among us is staying in DC on Saturday evening? I don't arrive until Saturday am but will be there until Sunday afternoon. It seems like a Saturday evening or Sunday morning Land...

Garnett on Business Improvement Districts

Posted on February 24, 2011
Nicole Garnett (Notre Dame) has posted Governing? Gentrifying? Seceding? Real-Time Answers to Questions About Business Improvement Districts, 3 Drexel L. Rev. 35 (2010). Here's the abstract: Business improvement districts ("BIDs") have become a ubiquitous feature of the urban development toolkit...

Howland on The Private Market for Brownfield Properties

Posted on February 24, 2011
Like yesterday's featured article from Cityscape, Marie Howland's (U. Md.- Planning)The Private Market for Brownfield Properties also takes advantage of Baltimore's industrial heritage to track brownfield sales . Here's the abstract: This study examines land sales over a 10-year period...

How do you sell a town?

Posted on February 24, 2011
is not a question answered by this article in Newsweek magazine, but the article does provide an interesting perspective about the past, and future, of company owned towns. Timber town Scotia, California is on the market, but at the same...

Where does Redevelopment Fit in our Priorities?

Posted on February 24, 2011
Ethan Elkind has a great post over at Legal Planet about Redevelopment and Governor Jerry Brown's budget priorities. We have quite a quandry in front of us as states deal with budget problems and many redevelopment agencies seem poorly run....

Purdy on American Natures: The Shape of Conflict in Environmental Law

Posted on February 24, 2011
Jedediah Purdy (Duke) has posted American Natures: The Shape of Conflict in Environmental Law. The abstract: There is a firestorm of political and cultural conflict around environmental issues, including but running well beyond climate change. Legal scholarship is in a...

ALPS

Posted on February 24, 2011
Mark Edwards over at the Property Prof blog is asking who is going to ALPS this year. For those of you unaware of this new acronym on the scene, ALPS is the Association of Law, Property and Society. Next week...

SCOTUS decides CSX Transportation v. Alabama Dept. of Revenue

Posted on February 23, 2011
The U.S. Supreme Court has issued its opinion in the case CSX TRANSPORTATION, INC. v. ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE et al., No. 09-520. The opinion deals with issues in state & local government law, tax, commerce, and transportation policy, and...

Application Period Opens for Smart Growth Awards

Posted on February 23, 2011
From Roberta White at EPA: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is pleased to announce that the application period for the 10th annual National Award for Smart Growth Achievement is now open . Through this award, EPA recognizes and supports...

Guignet and Alberini on Voluntary Cleanup and Brownfield Redevelopment

Posted on February 23, 2011
A recent issue of HUD's Cityscape journal contains several articles on land use and remediation of environmental contamination. The first featured here is Voluntary Cleanup Programs and Redevelopment Potential: Lessons from Baltimore, Maryland by Dennis Guignet and Anna Alberini (both...

The Struggle for Land--conference on early modern legal history

Posted on February 22, 2011
Speaking of interdisciplinarity, I received from H-Net this announcement of what looks like a fascinating conference about land use and legal history: The Struggle for Land: Property, Territory, and Jurisdiction in Early Modern Europe and the Americas, to be held...

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