As most of you probably already know, there’s a demon lurking out there in takings claims. Not of the Levon Helm-narrated The Right Stuff variety, but maybe just as deadly in litigation.
That’s right, the too-early-or-too-late thing (or in some cases, the too-early-and-too-late argument). Getting caught between arguments that a takings claim
If a zoning statute or ordinance sets out the uses permitted in a zone, and the uses not permitted in the zone, and a property owner wants to make a use not permitted in the zone, all she needs to do is apply for a variance, or a Conditional Use Permit, or a nonconforming use
Check this out, a new article co-authored by a federal judge’s law clerk and lawprof Lior Strahilevitz (Chicago). With the title, “Toward Principled Background Principles in Takings Law” are we going to read it? You bet. (Unlike a lot of new scholarship that we post here, we read this one immediately.)
Here’s the
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
The Registrar would not accept our suggestion
to change the course description to “Dirt Law”
This spring, starting mid-January we’ve been back in a law classroom, this time at one of our law almae matres, the University of Hawaii School of Law in Honolulu.
The course is Land Use Management and Control, and
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
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
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.