It’s easy when legal cannabis or medical marijuana is involved to make a joke.
But (for now) we’ll resist that temptation and simply tell you about a webinar our colleagues at the American Planning Association are putting on about our favorite thing … Land use law. (What did you think we might say?)
Thursday, March
The bulk of the Indiana Court of Appeals’ opinion in Grdinich v. Plan Comm’n for the Town of Hebron, No. 18A-PL-1050 (Feb. 28, 2019) is devoted to details of land use law, specifically exhaustion of administrative remedies. If that floats your boat, we’ll let you read it.
What caught our eye was at the
Those of you interested in the ongoing debate about vacation rentals (aka TVR’s) (in Honolulu, the minimum period a property owner can rent in a residential district under the zoning code is 31 days, unless the owner possesses a nonconforming use permit) should read the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals’ published opinion in Dao v.
We’re going to end 2018 with the latest in what we think was the most important issue of the past year (and which, we predict, will be the most important case in takings law for at least a decade when it likely gets decided in 2019), Knick v. Township of Scott, No. 17-647.
That
We’re almost there, but we still have room remaining. At the 2018 Conference in Charleston, we both sold out the registrations and the conference hotel, so we planned ahead for the upcoming 2019 Conference in Palm Springs at the Renaissance Palm Springs Resort.
Register here. You will also be able to download
Get ready. In this and upcoming posts, we’re going to be featuring the items on our agenda for the upcoming ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference, January 24-26, 2019, in sunny Palm Springs, California.
ALI-CLE has released the brochure, which those of you on the mailing list should have received —
As we guessed immediately after arguments, today in this order the Supreme Court has set the Knick v. Township of Scott case for supplemental briefing, and reargument.
Here’s the full text of the order:
This case is restored to the calendar for reargument. The parties and the Solicitor General are directed to file letter
Every year, at the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, the conference publishes a law journal with the articles, essays, and remarks presented at last year’s conference. So it was this year, and Volume 7, with the theme of “The Future of Regulatory Takings,” is now available.
We contributed an essay, “Back to the
Would you pay, say $10 for an undeveloped Maui beachfront parcel that is zoned for hotel and residential purposes, but currently is not developable because the County in the past wanted to condemn the land and turn it into a public park (but then ran out of money)?
In furtherance of its acquisition plan, the
Last week, the 15th Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference saw the gathering of legal scholars, judges, lawyers, and law students at the William and Mary Law School to award the B-K Property Rights Prize to Cardozo lawprof Stewart Sterk, followed by a day-long conference focusing on Professor Sterk’s work and the latest developments in property