Zoning & Planning

There’s one citation notably missing from the opinion of the Texas Court of Appeals in Anderton v. City of Cedar Hill, No. 05-12-00969-CV (Aug. 22, 2014): Williamson County.  

This was case where in response to the city’s petition that the Anderdons’ use of their property was illegal, they counterclaimed that they had

If you, like us, went to law school to avoid things like this:

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then perhaps this recently-published paper is not going to be your cup of tea.

But seriously, folks, this one might be worth your time, even if you are numbers-challenged, because it is a look at the “holdout” issue from the standpoint of

Remember that case we posted about here, when it was set for oral arguments in the Hawaii Supreme Court a few months ago, where the plaintiff was asserting that the County of Hawaii Planning Department was liable for negligence for not maintaining its subdivision files accurately?

Last month, the Hawaii Supreme Court issued a 

We bring you the latest guest post by colleague Paul Schwind, who has been tracking the issues and arguments that recently led the Hawaii Supreme Court to conclude, in DW Aina Lea Development, LLC v. Bridge Aina Lea, LLC, No. SCAP-13-0000091 (Nov. 25, 2014), that the Hawaii Land Use Commission wrongfully rescinded an

2015 Hawaii Land Use Law Conference Banner - Credits

Registration is now open for the 2015 Hawaii Land Use Law Conference, to be held in downtown Honolulu on Thursday-Friday, January 15-16, 2015.

This is the bi-annual conference, co-chaired by U. Hawaii lawprof David Callies and land use lawyer Ben Kudo, that brings together the big names in our area of law. In other

This opinion from the Maryland Court of Appeals may be too land-usey for you takings mavens, but it starts off with an attention-getter:

Few cases inflame such deep passions as a dispute involving individual property rights. The belief that fundamental concepts of liberty entailed strong property rights informed and influenced the Founders as they undertook

The Hawaii Supreme Court has issued a lengthy opinion in a case we’ve been following, DW Aina Lea Development, LLC v. Bridge Aina Lea, LLC, No. SCAP-13-0000091 (Nov. 25, 2014). 

The litigation is a series of two lawsuits that originated in state court in the Third Circuit (Big Island), one an original jurisdiction civil rights

Check out this story from today’s Greensboro/Winston-Salem (NC) News-Record, “DOT’s long road to nowhere angers property ownersabout the practice in North Carolina of using “protected corridors” to designate property under the state’s Transportation Corridor Official Map Act for future highway use, but then not condemning and paying for the land (while

There’s still time to register for tomorrow’s American Planning Association (Planning and Law Division)’s webinar, Fair Housing, Affordable Housing, and Local Planning and Zoning: Understanding the Obligations and Reducing Your Community’s Legal Risk. Here’s the description:

The Planning and Law Division of the American Planning Association is pleased to host the upcoming webcast Fair

The Hawaii Supreme Court has issued a unanimous opinion in Friends of Makakilo v. D.R. Horton-Schuler Homes, LLC, No. SCAP-13-0002408 (Oct. 30, 2014), holding that there’s not really such thing as a “cross appeal” in administratve appeals (at least in the sense that “cross appeal” is usually used in appellate procedure).  

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