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In the United States, urban house prices rose at several times the overall rate of inflation from the early 1990s until the beginning of the subprime ...
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Economic and population growth in Springfield and Southwest Missouri has placed development pressure on many areas which merit protection. These inclu...
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SANGERVILLE - Only 59 percent of Maine communities have updated their shoreland zoning ordinances as required by law and only 41 percent have updated their maps to reflect the changes, despite a July 1, 2009, deadline, according to a Department of Environmental Protection official.
Enacted by the Legislature in 1972, the Shoreland Zoning Act, which has since been amended, requires communities to establish land use controls for all land areas within 250 feet of ponds and nonforested freshwater wetlands that are 10 acres or larger; rivers with watersheds of at least 25 square miles in drainage area; coastal wetlands and tidal waters; and all land areas within 75 feet of certain streams. To aid towns in developing those land use controls, the state drafted model guidelines containing the s...
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Recently, Edward Sullivan was asked to speak at a law school conference in Chicago. The conference was to commemorate "The Quiet Revolution in Land Use Control," which was published 40 years ago. That book was one of three significant publications which, taken together, led to a significant change in the way land-use controls are employed in the United States.
The Quiet Revolution" was written Fred Bosselman, a longtime Illinois practitioner and law professor, and David Callies, who left practice in Chicago to take a law school professorship at the University of Hawaii. Their thesis was that planning must be done and that it must have a significant influence on land-use controls and the zoning decisions that follow, that environmental impacts must be considered in planning and land-use...
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A Delaware bankruptcy judge has approved the sale of the lion's share of the sprawling Banning Lewis Ranch in Colorado Springs to a Houston-based company that wants to drill for oil and gas on the property.
But as part of his approval Thursday of Ultra Resources' purchase, the judge agreed that a Colorado bankruptcy court should decide the thorny issue of whether city land-use agreements that were intended to govern the ranch's development - including an annexation agreement, utilities agreement and other land-use controls - should remain in effect.
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Economic and population growth in Springfield and Southwest Missouri has placed development pressure on many areas which merit protection. These inclu...
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Colorado Springs and Ultra Resources appear no closer to settling their dispute over the Banning Lewis Ranch, where Ultra wants to drill for oil and gas free of city controls and the Springs contends it has the legal right to regulate what the company does.
On Friday, the city filed a 54-page response to Ultra in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Denver, in which it reiterated its contention that a 23-year-old annexation agreement and other land-use controls should govern the ranch's development and cannot be "stripped away" as a result of Ultra's purchase of ranch property this year.