Here’s what’s on our radar screen today (other than the transcript of this morning’s property rights arguments at the Supreme Court, that is):
Anthony Flint, How Zoning Won (Bloomberg) (“In 1926, the Supreme Court’s Euclid decision enshrined zoning in US cities. On its 100th anniversary, academics gathered to reflect on the landmark ruling’s mixed legacy.”)
Michael Karlik, Colorado justices skeptical of challenge to water enterprises’ eminent domain power (Colorado Politics) (“Members of the Colorado Supreme Court appeared receptive on Wednesday to the notion that water-related enterprises have the legal authority to exercise the governmental power of eminent domain over private property.”).
Jennifer Polovetsky, Not So Fast! Why The Mamdani Administration Cannot Simply Seize Buildings From “Bad Landlords” (New York Real Estate Journal) (“So can the Mamdani administration seize currently occupied, rent-regulated properties via eminent domain? Maybe.”).
Michelle Stacey, New York’s Grand Central Terminal Helped Provide the Blueprint for American Cities. It Happened by Accident (Smithsonian) (“The local Landmarks Preservation Commission fought Penn Central’s plan all the way to the Supreme Court, which in 1978 upheld Grand Central’s landmark status and protected it from the disfiguring skyscraper. ‘Penn Central is the most important decision on historic preservation law ever rendered in the United States,’ wrote J. Peter Byrne of the Georgetown University Law Center in 2021. ‘Preservation in turn has shaped leading U.S. cities as they have taken on new identities in a postindustrial society.'”).