Land Use Law Sources

The following references are various books, articles, and treatises on land-use law that were selected for submission by a variety of persons knowledgeable in the field including some reporters of APA's Planning & Environmental Law. While this list is by no measure exhaustive, the sources are some of the better ones in the field and offer good starting points on the legal topics.

These persons were asked to submit the best sources on land-use law on approximately 20 topics. Not all topics received suggestions for legal literature to list, while other topics evolved. These topics are some of the more familiar ones (like "takings") and some created for convenience (like "General Land Use Law" and "Treatises").

Publications are listed differently from those in the other sections of the Essential Planning Library. Article names appear in italics; the names of periodicals and books appear in Roman type.

Contributors

Dwight H. Merriam, AICP, Attorney, Robinson & Cole, Hartford, Connecticut
David Callies, AICP, Kudo Professor of Law, University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Donald L. Elliott, AICP, Attorney and Vice President of Clarion Associates, Denver
Eric Damian Kelly, AICP, Attorney and Dean, College of Architecture and Planning, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
Daniel R. Mandelker, AICP, Stamper Professor of Law, School of Law, Washington University, St. Louis
Patricia Salkin, Attorney and Assistant Dean, Albany Law School, New York
A. Dan Tarlock, Professor of Law, IIT/Chicago Kent College of Law, Chicago
Robert H. Freilich, AICP, Attorney, Freilich, Leitner & Carlisle, Kansas City

Adequate Public Facilities

Stephen P. Chinn and Elizabeth A. Garvin, Designing Development Allocation Systems, 44 Land Use Law & Zoning Digest, No. 2 at 3 (1992).

S.M. White, Adequate Public Facilities Ordinances and Transportation Management, American Planning Association, Planning Advisory Service Report No. 465 (1996).

Adult Uses

Jules B. Gerard, Local Regulation of Adult Businesses, West Group Zoning and Land Use Library.

Affordable Housing

James A. Kushner, Fair Housing: Discrimination in Real Estate, Community Development and Revitalization, West Group Zoning and Land Use Law Library.

John M. Payne, Remedies for Affordable Housing: From Fair Share to Growth Share, 49 Land Use Law & Zoning Digest, No. 6 at 3 (1997).

Conflicts of Interest

Eric Dyas, Conflicts of Interest in Planning & Zoning Cases, 17 Journal of the Legal Profession 219 (1992).

Patricia E. Salkin, Ethics and the Land-Use Lawyer, 49 Land Use Law & Zoning Digest, No. 5 at 3 (1997).

Exactions and Impact Fees

The Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, Challenging Exactions and Impact Fees: Post Nollan and Dolan Decisions (1996).

The Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, Development Agreements: Analysis, Colorado Case Studies & Commentary (1996).

The Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, Development Impact Fees in the Rocky Mountain Region (1994).

Environmental Protection

Fred Bosselman, Ecology, Risk & Planning, 49 Land Use Law & Zoning Digest, No. 1 at 3 (1997).

Daniel R. Mandelker, Melding State Environmental Policy Acts with Land-Use Planning and Regulations, 49 Land Use Law & Zoning Digest, No. 2 at 3 (1997).

The Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, The Endangered Species Act: Impacts on Land Use and Development (1997).

The Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, Watershed Planning (1997).

General Land Use Law

John J. Delaney, Stanley D. Abrams and Frank Schnidman, Land Use Practice and Forms: Handling the Land Use Case (2nd Edition, 1997).

Donald G. Hagman and Julian Conrad Juergensmeyer, Urban Planning and Land Development Control Law (2nd edition, 1986).

Daniel R. Mandelker, Land Use Law (3rd edition, 1993).

Daniel R. Mandelker, Jules B. Gerard and E. Thomas Sullivan, Federal Land Use Law: Limitations/Procedures/Remedies, West Group Zoning and Land Use Library.

Governmental Liability

The Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, Personal Liability of Planning and Zoning Officials (1994).

Group Homes

The Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, The Fair Housing Act, Zoning and Group Homes (1996).

Growth Management/Sprawl Controls

Robert H. Freilich and Mark White, Transportation Congestion and Growth Management: Comprehensive Approaches to Resolving America's Major Quality of Life Crisis, 24 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 915 (1991).

E. Kelly, Community Growth: Policies, Techniques, and Impacts (1993).

A. Nelson and J. Duncan, Growth Management Principles and Practices (1995).

Douglas R. Porter, Profiles in Growth Management: An Assessment of Current Programs and Guidelines for Effective Management (1996).

Douglas R. Porter, Do State Growth Management Acts Make a Difference? Local Growth Management Measures Under Different State Growth Policies, 24 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 1015 (1991).

The Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, Growth Management Techniques: An Overview of Systems for the New Millennium (1997).

Historic Preservation

John J. Costonis, Icons and Aliens: Law, Aesthetics, and Environmental Change (U. of Illinois Press, 1989).

John J. Costonis, Law and Aesthetics: A Critique and a Reformulation of the Dilemmas, 80 Michigan Law Review 355 (1982).

John J. Costonis, The Chicago Plan: Incentive Zoning and the Preservation of Urban Landmarks, 85 Harvard Law Review 574 (1972).

John J. Costonis, Space Adrift: Landmark Preservation and the Marketplace (1974).

Incentive Zoning

Jerold Kayden, Zoning for Dollars: New Rules for an Old Game? Comments on the Municipal Art Society and Nollan Cases, 39 Journal of Urban and Contemporary Law 3 (1991).

Miscellaneous

Bradford White and Paul Edmondson, Procedural Due Process in Plain English (1994).

Don Elliot, Colorado Land Planning and Development Law, American Planning Association, Colorado Chapter (1992).

Plan Consistency Requirement

Rodney L. Cobb, Mandatory Planning: An Overview, American Planning Association, PAS Memo (Feb. 1994).

Charles M. Haar, "In Accordance with a Comprehensive Plan," 68 Harvard Law Review 1154 (1955).

Daniel R. Mandelker, The Role of the Local Comprehensive Plan in Land Use Regulation, 74 Michigan Law Review 899 (1976).

Daniel R. Mandelker and A. Dan Tarlock, Shifting the Presumption of Constitutionality in Land Use Law, 24 Urban Lawyer 1 (1992).

A. Dan Tarlock, Consistency With Adopted Land Use Plans as a Standard of Judicial Review: The Case Against, 9 Urban Law Annual 69 (1975).

Regulatory Reforms/Streamlining

Brian W. Blaesser, Discretionary Land Use Controls: Avoiding Invitations to Abuse of Discretion (1997).

The Rocky Mountain Land Institute, Obsolete Subdivisions and What to Do About Them (1997).

Religious Institutions

Mark W. Cordes, Where to Pray? Religious Zoning & the First Amendment, 35 University of Kansas Law Review 697 (1987).

Alan C. Weinstein, The Myth of Ministry vs. Mortar: A Legal and Policy Analysis of Landmark Designation of Religious Institutions, 65 Temple Law Review 91 (1992).

Signs

Daniel R. Mandelker and William R. Ewald, Street Graphics and the Law (1988).

Takings

Michael M. Berger, The "Ripeness" Mess in Federal Land Use Cases or How the Supreme Court Converted Federal Judges Into Fruit Peddlers, Institute On Planning, Zoning, & Eminent Domain (1991).

Michael M. Berger and Gideon Kanner, Thoughts on The White River Junction Manifesto: A Reply to the "Gang of Five's" Views on Just Compensation for the Regulatory Taking of Property, 19 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 685 (1986).

D. Callies, Takings: Land-Development Conditions and Regulatory Takings After Lucas and Dolan (1996).

David Coursen, Property Rights Legislation: A Survey of Federal and State Assessment and Compensation Measures, 26 Environmental Law Report 10, 239 (1996).

Christopher Duerksen and Richard Roddewig, Takings Law in Plain English (1994).

Donald L. Elliot, Givings and Takings, 48 Land Use Law & Zoning Digest, No. 1 at 3 (1996).

Gideon Kanner, "Just Compensation," A Monthly Periodical on the Law of Eminent Domain.

Jerold Kayden, Land-Use Regulations, Rationality and Judicial Review: The RSUP in the Nollan Invitation, 23 Urban Lawyer 301 (1991).

Richard J. Lazarus, Putting the Correct "Spin" on Lucas, 45 Stanford Law Review 1411 (1993) .

Nathaniel S. Lawrence, Means Motives, and Takings: The Nexus Test of Nollan v. California Coastal Commission, 12 Harvard Environmental Law Review 231 (1988).

Marc R. Lisker, Regulatory Takings and the Denominator Problem, 27 Rutgers Law Journal 663 (1996).

Daniel R. Mandelker, Investment-Backed Expectations in Taking Law, 27 Urban Lawyer 215 (1995).

Frank I. Michelman, Property, Utility and Fairness: On the Ethical Foundations of Just Compensation Theory, 80 Harvard Law Review 1165 (1967).

Gregory Overstreet, The Ripeness Doctrine of the Takings Clause: A Survey of Decisions Showing Just How Far Federal Courts Will Go to Avoid Adjudicating Land Use Cases, 10 Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law 91 (1994).

Carol M. Rose, Property as the Keystone Right?, 71 Notre Dame Law Review 329 (1996).

William Michael Treanor, The Original Understanding of the Takings Clause and the Political Process, 95 Columbia Law Review 782 (1995).

Norman Williams, Jr., R. Marlin Smith, Charles Siemon, Daniel R. Mandelker, and Richard F. Babcock, The White River Junction Manifesto, 9 Vermont Law Review 193 (1984).

The Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, Regulatory Takings (1996).

The Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, The Constitutional Protection of Individual Property Rights (1996).

Telecommunications

Robert A. Heverly, Dealing with Towers, Antennas, and Satellite Dishes, 48 Land Use Law & Zoning Digest, No. 11 at 3 (1996).

The Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, Local Regulation of Communication Towers, Cellular Facilities, Amateur Antennae and Satellite Dishes: The Telecommunications Reform Act of 1996 and FCC Preemption Rules (1997).

Transferable Development Rights

John J. Costonis, Development Rights Transfer: An Exploratory Essay, 83 Yale Law Journal 75 (1973).

The Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, Transfer Development Rights (1994).

Transportation

Jerry Weitz, Toward a Model Statutory Plan Element: Transportation, 49 Land Use Law & Zoning Digest, No. 2 at 3 (1997).

Margaret E. Marshall, ISTEA Five Years Later: Where Do We Go From Here? 49 Land Use Law & Zoning Digest, No. 7 at 3 (1997).

Treatises

Robert M. Anderson, American Law of Zoning (3rd Edition, 1986, Annual Cumulative Supplement).

Arden H. Rathkopf and Edward H. Ziegler, Jr., The Law of Zoning and Planning: Analysis of the Law of Zoning (4th edition, 1990, Annual Cumulative Supplement).

Patrick J. Rohan, Zoning and Land Use Controls (ed. Eric Damian Kelly, rev. 1996, Monthly Publication Updates).

Norman Williams, Jr., American Land Planning Law (1974 & Supp. 1988, Annual Cumulative Supplement).

Vested Rights

Kenneth B. Bley and Tina R. Axelrad, The Search for Constitutionally Protected "Property" In Land Use Law, 29 Urban Lawyer 251 (1997).

John J. Delaney and Emily J. Vaias, Recognizing Vested Development Rights as Property in Fifth Amendment Due Process and Takings Claims, Land Use Institute on Planning, Regulation, Litigation, Eminent Domain, and Compensation. (1996).