Due to a remarkable convergence of criticisms from both the right and the left, zoning is
under more sustained attack than at any time in the last seventy-five years. A consensus is …

Zoning is the quintessential wicked problem. Professors Rittel and Webber, writing in the
1970s, identified as" wicked" those problems that technocratic expertise cannot necessarily …

Exactions are demands levied on residential or commercial developers to force them, rather
than a municipality, to bear the costs of new infrastructure. Local governments commonly …

ABSTRACT Penn Central v. New York City is the most important regulatory takings case of
all time. There, the Supreme Court upheld the historic preservation of Grand Central …

Looking back over a century of experience, we can perceive that American state court
judges, assisted and inspired by experts in academia and in practice, have shaped a fairly …

Encountering cities as complex systems has been pictured as both an intellectual challenge
and an urge to reconceptualise planning practices accordingly. Statutory planning in …

Local governments typically insure themselves against all kinds of losses, from property
damage to legal liability. For small-and medium-sized governments, this usually means …

Defining the client activities that require the assistance of transactional lawyers has led to
the question-what does a business transactions attorney do anyway? 2 Robin Malloy and …

At a December 2016 city council meeting in Broomfield, Colorado, residents filled the space
to capacity to voice bitter opposition to hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations in their town …

Two houses built on top of opposing mountains look out over the valley floor below. From
the back porch of their three-story vacation home, the easterly facing neighbor looks to her …