A leading land use resource for practitioners, updated quarterly with new cases and materials.
The Legal Constructs Lab is supporting regular updates to cases and explanatory materials in this 91-chapter treatise. The Legal Constructs Lab is supporting regular updates to cases and explanatory materials in this 91-chapter treatise.
This treatise, co-authored by Professor Bronin and attorney Dwight Merriam, provides detailed coverage of zoning and planning with case law, including constitutional and statutory limitations on government zoning and planning powers, remedies for wrongful land use regulation, rezoning issues, and subdivision restrictions. It discusses tort actions and governmental immunities, especially beneficial in litigation, and provides extensive footnoting for state-specific referencing. It also examines evolving issues such as: floodplain and wetlands regulation, growth management, regulation of hazardous wastes, historic preservation laws, variances, building permits, housing laws, restrictions on manufactured housing, private covenants, regulation of adult entertainment businesses, and regulation of religious land use.
Researchers who work to update this treatise delve deeply into the particulars of land use law, documenting the breadth of cases and identifying trends as they emerge. In turn, this treatise guides the development of the law itself, as it is often cited in judicial decisions and legal research.