Land Use Prof Blog
Covers news, issues and commentary related to land use law.
Author: Paul Boudreaux, an assistant professor of law at Stetson University College of Law, edits Land Use Prof Blog, which is part of the Law Professors Blog Network.
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Recent Posts from Land Use Prof Blog
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A clash of laws … and another victory for local control of cell phone towers …
Few land use topics involve a clash of federal and local law as much as cell phone towers. The issue creates a social conundrum: everyone loves cell phones, but everyone hates the ugly towers. Federal…
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A clash of laws … and another victory for local control of cell phone towers …
Few land use topics involve a clash of federal and local law as much as cell phone towers. The issue creates a social conundrum: everyone loves cell phones, but everyone hates the ugly towers. Federal…
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From Thanksgiving to … Hollywood of the East? …
Should you give a rich person money, in the hopes that he or she will then reward you with an even larger gift? It sounds risky. But many American localities are in effect taking this…
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Housing the hurricane homeless, and the barrier of local land use law …
In this year of big government solutions, one would think America would welcome the federal government’s assistance to those made homeless by hurricanes. After all, one of the lessons of Hurricane Katrina a few years…
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The third rush hour ... ending talk of the end of sprawl? …
Just a few months ago, with gasoline over $4 a gallon, chatter was full of talk of the “end of sprawl” with a rush to small cars and avoiding driving. Land use law needed to…
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The brave new world of billboards …
If law can tell a homeowner that she can’t have a three-story house, or that her backyard shed is too big, or that she can’t paint her house pink, way can’t law restrict electronic billboards?…
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The time for buying up land for the public?
What benefits to land use policy arise by virtue of the housing price slump? One answer is that governments and private organizations may be more able to buy the ownership of, or at least the…
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The changing hues of suburbs and city …
If there were any doubt that the old model of a poor and diverse central city surrounded by affluent white suburbs is now thoroughly outmoded, here’s a fascinating story from the Virginia suburbs of Washington,…
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Public-private partnerships and low-cost housing …
While the market for private housing loans for low-income people is pinched, the federal government, having started its financial support for banks, is pushed to help other types of firms. With this shakiness in the…
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Mastering New Orleans? …
Many American legal systems require that zoning regulations and decisions be “in accord with a comprehensive plan,” as stated in the Standard Zoning Enabling Act. This principle is often given merely lip service in practice,…