Understanding the law of zoning and land use controls

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Law Library — 2nd Floor Collection (2nd floor)

Call Number
KF5698.A5 B87 2013
Status
Available
Call Number
KF5698.A5 B87 2013 c. 2
Status
Available

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Summary

Understanding the Law of Zoning and Land Use Controls, now in its Third Edition, is a comprehensive and clearly written text addressing zoning, land use, and environmental regulation in a national, jurisdiction-independent manner. It first sets out the constitutional framework for land use regulation in a discussion of the takings clause, followed by a discussion of the basic form of land use controls, Euclidian zoning, and then non-Euclidian regulations. Also discussed are administrative and legislative relief from land use controls, the bread and butter of a land use practice.

The book is divided into six parts:

Part 1: Fundamental Concepts: The Police Power, Takings, and Zoning

Part 2: The Zoning Forms of Action

Part 3: Economic Discrimination and Zoning

Part 4: Wetlands and Beaches

Part 5: Regulating the User, Not the Use

Part 6: Halting an Owner's Further Regulation

Contents

The police power -- The takings clause and its public use requirement -- Types of takings : physical and regulatory takings -- The evolution of regulatory takings -- Temporary regulatory takings -- The structure of zoning : the Euclid case -- Euclidian land-use controls and non-conforming uses -- Aesthetics and zoning -- Moratoria and growth controls -- Administrative relief from zoning ordinances -- Seeking a rezoning -- Non-Euclidean rezoning : administrative flexibility in zoning -- Judicial review of zoning actions -- Subdivision regulations, impact fees, linkage fees, and exactions -- Exclusionary zoning -- Civil rights and exclusionary zoning -- Protection of sensitive lands -- "Family" and group homes -- The First Amendment and zoning -- Democracy and zoning : the place of the referendum -- Vested rights and governmental estoppel.

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