Land use planning and the environment: a casebook

- Publisher:
- Environmental Law Institute
- Publication date:
- 2010-01-23
- Authors:
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Charles M. Haar
Michael Allan Wolf - ISBN:
- 978-158576-128-9
Description:
In Land Use Planning and the Environment, the authors have dramatically revised and updated a classic, seminal casebook, Land-Use Planning. Designed primarily for the classroom, the book takes a comprehensive approach to the teaching of planning and zoning law, regulatory takings, and environmental topics. Throughout the casebook, the authors identify and explore intersections between land use planning law and environmental regulation. They also identify the hidden environmental agenda” behind exclusionary zoning, the impact of urban sprawl on clean air and critical habitats, and other interconnections. Professors, students, and law and planning practitioners with strong backgrounds and exposure to traditional” environmental law will find these intersections a wonderful opportunity to examine familiar topics from a fresh perspective. For other users, Land Use Planning and the Environment will serve as a valuable introduction to the environmental realm, a realm that, more than perhaps any other in American law, is subject to swift and dramatic changes that require the most current teaching materials.
Index
- Index
- About the Authors
- Table of Cases
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Planning and Law: Shaping the Legal Environment of Land Development and Preservation
- The Holy Grail: Managing Growth While Maintaining Affordability and Protecting Natural Resources
- The 'Euclidean' Strategy: Authorizing and Implementing the Legislative Districting of Permissible Land Uses
- Accommodating Change: Departures From (and Within) the Zoning Ordinance
- The Regulatory Takings Battleground: Environmental Regulation of Land Versus Private-Property Rights
- The Centrality of Exclusion: Legal Impediments to Keeping 'Undesirable' People and Uses Out of the Community
- The Limitations of 'Sic Utere Tuo...': Planning by Private Law Devices
- Preliminary sections