As we wrote up here, national zoning and planning expert Nolan Gray joined our U. Hawaii Land Use class (and the public) last week for a talk about whether zoning is an impediment to affordable housing in Hawaii.
Thank you to Grassroot Institute of Hawaii for recording the talk, as well as making Mr.
The session was recorded.
Here’s the video and audio.
Earlier this week, planner M. Nolan Gray, author of the new book, “Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It” (Island Press 2022) joined our Land Use class at the University of Hawaii Law School to talk
Here are the opinions that we spoke about this afternoon at the Land Use Institute on “The Use of Eminent Domain for Redevelopment & Economic Development Projects.”
“But we had to eat.”
So begins the Washington Supreme Court’s opinion in Washington Food Industry Ass’n v. City of Seattle, No. 99771-3 (Feb. 9, 2023), wherein the court held that a takings challenge to Seattle’s ordinance requiring Co-19 combat pay for food delivery workers may proceed.
There’s a lot in the opinion about
We were eagerly anticipating 40th American Law Institute-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference. The 2022 Conference in Scottsdale was one of the first meetings where everyone was back in-person (and was a smashing success), but that conference was early in the game so not everyone could or would attend. But in the past
Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following since its inception.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has affirmed the Eastern District of New York’s 12(b)(6) dismissal of a complaint alleging that New York (state)’s sweeping amendments to its Rent Stabilization (rent control) statute effected physical and regulatory takings.
First
Land users: come join us online for the 36th Annual Land Use Institute. Yes, the venerable program is back again, with the usual line up of dirt law experts covering all you need to know and bringing you up to speed on the latest. Here’s the description of the program:
This Annual Land Use Institute
You remember, don’t you? In the early days of the Co-19 epidemic, government and public health authorities were scrambling to do something … sometimes anything! … to respond.
Dare County, North Carolina might have been one of those local governments that went maybe just a bit too far in the precaution vs effectiveness departments:
Here’s your chance to spend some time with the author of one of the hottest land use and public policy books out there, Nolan Gray.
RSVP now (admission free, but space is limited) to join our Land Use class when we welcome Mr. Gray to respond to the question in the title of this post.
If your first reaction to the Texas Court of Appeals (First District)’s decision in City of Houston v. The Commons of Lake Houston, Ltd., No. 01-21-00369-DV (Jan. 12, 2023) is scratching your head, then please come join us in bewilderment.
After all, the court held that a takings claim failed because the city