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By Paul Boudreaux

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

Groves Award Nominations...

Posted on January 08, 2011
As I mentioned before, Ken Groves, Montgomery's former planning director (a close friend to many of us and a visionary leader), passed away last fall after a brief illness. The Congress for the New Urbanism and the Transect Codes Council...

Housing and Community Development, 4th ed.

Posted on January 08, 2011
Carolina Academic Press has just released the 4th edition of Housing and Community Development: Cases and Materials (Amazon has a substantial preview). Barbara Bezdek (Maryland) has joined the already prominent list of eight community development and law professor editors...

Mixon & McGlynn on Zoning, Planning, Chaos, & Complexity Theory

Posted on January 07, 2011
John Mixon (Houston) and Kathleen McGlynn (Germer Gartz) have posted A New Zoning and Planning Metaphor: Chaos and Complexity Theory, Houston Law Review, Vol. 42, p. 1221 (2006). The abstract: The Standard Zoning Enabling Act (SZEA) empowers municipalities to adopt...

Mulvaney on The New Judicial Takings Construct

Posted on January 07, 2011
Timothy M. Mulvaney (Texas Wesleyan) has posted The New Judicial Takings Construct, forthcoming on the Yale Law Journal Online. The abstract: In Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection, a four-Justice plurality endorsed a novel theory...

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Teaching Property and Pre-Columbian Land Use

Posted on January 07, 2011
? I?m getting ready to start teaching Johnson v. M?Intosh in Property on Monday. I like the choice by the Dukeminier book website to look at the Iroquois three-crop agrarian culture to challenge the hunter-gatherer generalization about Native American land...

Land Bank Conference

Posted on January 07, 2011
'Tis the season for session proposal deadlines. My friends at the Center for Community Progress (f/k/a the National Vacant Properties Campaign) have sent me this reminder about the upcoming Land Bank Conference in Detroit, MI from June 5-7, 2011. The...

Creative Participation

Posted on January 07, 2011
Here in the UK I'm currently finalising a research projects with colleagues who are experts in creative participation and community development. It will take some time to discover whether or not we're awarded the grant but in the process of...

Municipal Bike Sharing Programs...

Posted on January 06, 2011
With gas prices creeping back past $3.00 per gallon, individual travel by individual car is increasingly expensive. If this costly gas trend continues, then it wouldn't be a surprise to see bike-sharing programs like this new one in Miami increase...

Women Only Public Transportation

Posted on January 06, 2011
Here's a really interesting article about public transportation segregated by sex. This concept had never crossed my mind before I read this piece, but in many cases around the world women-only transport is saving women from sexual assault and helping...

I've been moonlighting since our

Posted on January 06, 2011
I've been moonlighting since our planning director suddenly passed away this fall (he was a close friend to many of us including the law school). While teaching remains my first love, it has been a fascinating experience.

Conference Announcement & CFP: Best Practices for Teaching Land Use, Environmental, & Sustainable Development Law

Posted on January 05, 2011
From Profs. Patricia Salkin & John Nolon: Save The Date and Call for Presentations May 5, 2011 at Pace Law School in White Plains, New York Practically Grounded ? Best Practices for Skill Building in Teaching Land Use, Environmental, and...

Upcoming Conference at Pace - Call for Presentations

Posted on January 05, 2011
From Patricia Salkin at Albany: Save The Date and Call for Presentations May 5, 2011 at Pace Law School in White Plains, New York Practically Grounded ? Best Practices for Skill Building in Teaching Land Use, Environmental, and Sustainable Development...

In Between Things...

Posted on January 04, 2011
Happy New Year to everyone! For this land use prof, it's been a wild start so far. We travelled to the Grand Canyon last week and soon learned what 30 inches of snow falling in less than 48 hours looks...

CSU Clinic Helps Rescue Distressed Houses

Posted on January 04, 2011
News from Kermit Lind at Cleveland State: An Associated Press story on how nonprofits are collaborating with banks to rescue distressed houses for productive use and owner-occupancy shows what the UDLC's clients are doing in Cleveland. Nonprofits of various types...

Salkin and Lavine on Zoning for Fraternities & Sororities

Posted on January 03, 2011
Patricia E. Salkin (Albany) and Amy Lavine (Albany) have posted Zoning for Off-Campus Fraternity and Sorority Houses, published in the Zoning and Planning Law Report, Vol. 33, No. 11, 2010. The abstract: This article discusses how communities across the country...

Localism in the United Kingdom

Posted on January 01, 2011
I?m delighted to be contributing to the Land Use Prof blog, particularly at a time when land use is high on the agenda in the United Kingdom and an area of major reform for the new coalition Conservative-Liberal Democrat Government....

Introducing Antonia Layard

Posted on January 01, 2011
We mentioned in the New Year's post below that we have an exciting lineup of guest bloggers that we somehow persuaded to join us over the coming year. The first of our 2011 guest bloggers is not only an impressive...

Introducing Jim Kelly

Posted on January 01, 2011
We are very glad to announce that Prof. James J. Kelly, Jr. is joining us as an Editor of the Land Use Prof Blog. Jim has been an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Community Development Clinic at the...

2011 at the Land Use Prof Blog

Posted on January 01, 2011
We have some exciting things to announce! First, we are pleased to welcome Prof. James J. Kelly, Jr. as a permanent Editor of the blog. Jim is currently an assistant professor and director of the University of Baltimore Community Development...

. . . Hello 2011!

Posted on January 01, 2011
Happy New Year to the land use community! I've noticed a trend in the last few years of more cities putting on a New Year's or "first night" celebration downtwon. That's an encouraging sign for the increasing health of urban...

Farewell 2010 . . .

Posted on January 01, 2011
We had a great year here on the Land Use Prof Blog. The stats show that we reached a lot of new readers, and we were very pleased and humbled to get some positive feedback from those of you in...

Counties - Unincorporated Areas

Posted on December 29, 2010
In a previous blog posting, I highlighted a few problems inherent in a zoning scheme that is largely localized. Here is another difficulty stemming from vesting multiple municipalities with relatively independent zoning authority -- namely, how to regulate the use...

Kelly on Maryland's Affordable Housing Land Trust Act

Posted on December 29, 2010
James J. Kelly, Jr. (Baltimore; Washington & Lee (visiting)) has posted Maryland's Affordable Housing Land Trust Act, recently published in the Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, Vol. 19, p. 345, Spring/Summer 2010. The abstract: On May 20,...

Rockefeller Center and Big Development Projects

Posted on December 29, 2010
I just saw a CNBC documentary on The Rockefellers. It was well done (not sure when it was originally made). One segment that I found very interesting from a land use perspective was the story of the development of Rockefeller...

Physicist invents Urban Science

Posted on December 28, 2010
Here's a fascinating story from yesterday's New York Times: A Physicist Solves the City. It's about physicist Geoffrey West, who after a career working at places like Los Alamos and Stanford, decided to turn his attention to solving the city--not...

Tarlock on Land Use Regulation as the Weak Link in Environmental Protection

Posted on December 27, 2010
A. Dan Tarlock (Chicago-Kent) has posted Land Use Regulation: The Weak Link in Environmental Protection, Washington Law Review, Vol. 82, No. 651 (2007). The abstract: Professor William Rodgers is one of the handful of legal academics who have shaped and...

Only in Hollywood - Film School vs. Farmers' Market

Posted on December 24, 2010
In an interesting variation on "coming to the nuisance," the Los Angeles Film School has moved next door to the Hollywood Farmers' Market and is now contesting renewal of the market's permit. Apparently, the market - which operates only on...

Levitin & Twomey on Mortgage Servicing

Posted on December 24, 2010
Adam J. Levitin (Georgetown) and Tara Twomey (Nat'l Consumer Law Center, Nat'l Ass'n of Consumer Bankruptcy Attys) have posted Mortgage Servicing, Yale Journal on Regulation, Vol. 28, No. 1 (2011) [first 2011 pub date on the blog so far?]. The...

Avery & Brevoort on Lender Regulation and the Subprime Crisis

Posted on December 23, 2010
Robert B. Avery & Kenneth P. Brevoort (Federal Reserve) have posted The Subprime Crisis: How Much Did Lender Regulation Matter? The abstract: The recent subprime crisis has spawned a growing literature suggesting that regulatory preferences for lower-income borrowers and neighborhoods,...

Faithful on Native American Land Liberation

Posted on December 23, 2010
Richael Faithful (American U) has posted An Idea of American Indian Land Justice: Examining Native Land Liberation in the New Progressive Era, forthcoming in the National Lawyers Guild Journal. The abstract: This article is inspired by Professor Robert Odawi Porter?s...

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