Handbook of Massachusetts Land Use and Planning Law
Handbook of Massachusetts Land Use and Planning Law

Author: Mark Bobrowski

Publisher: Wolters Kluwer

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 802

ISBN-13: 0735530041

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When you're dealing with any piece of real estate in Massachusetts, you need to Understand The applicable land use regulations and cases. Bobrowski's Handbook of Massachsetts Land Use and Planning Law provides all the insightful analysis and practical, expert advice you need, with detailed coverage of such important issues as: Affordable housing Special permit and variance decisions Zoning in Boston Nonconforming uses and structures Administrative appeal procedures Enforcement requests Building permits Vested rights Agricultural use exemptions Current tests for exactions SLAPP suit procedures Impact fees Civil rights challenges. Helpful tables facilitate convenient case law review, while forms and extensive cross-references add To The book's usefulness.

The Board Manual
The Board Manual

Author: Frederick Haigh Bair

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13:

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The Zoning Board Manual explains the board's responsibilities and the limits of its power; discusses common types of zoning cases; provides model rules of procedure; and offers pointers on how to solve persistent problems. It is filled with examples from zoning practice and ordinance language. Bair stresses the importance of good rules as the foundation of good board performance. A long chapter discusses membership, meetings, offices, records, public notice, staff, procedures at hearings, and a myriad of other topics. Filled with advice on how to do a better job, this is a must read for any zoning official.

Well Grounded
Well Grounded

Author: John R. Nolon

Publisher: Environmental Law Institute

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 9781585760244

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The United States is struggling to control its sprawling land use patterns and to develop a unifying strategy of smart growth. The new millennium has brought with it greater popular understanding of this matter, and it is now known that land use law and practice directly address the problems associated with sprawl. In his new book, Well Grounded, Using Local Land Use Authority to Achieve Smart Growth, John R. Nolon explores the growing interest in land use law and practice that has been stimulated by the public's increasing disfavor with urban sprawl and its support of smart growth initiatives. For land use novices, the book's glossary defines technical terms and each chapter provides basic definitions of all topics before delving into more complicated applications of them. Well Grounded is a comprehensive, easy-to-use, and practical reference for land use officials and professionals, academics, and citizens in all states.

Handbook of Massachusetts Land Use and Planning Law, 4th Edition
Handbook of Massachusetts Land Use and Planning Law, 4th Edition

Author: Bobrowski

Publisher: Wolters Kluwer

Published: 2018-01-01

Total Pages: 912

ISBN-13: 1543802451

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When you're dealing with any piece of real estate in Massachusetts, you need to understand the applicable land use regulations and cases. This revised Fourth Edition of Mark Bobrowski's Handbook of Massachusetts Land Use and Planning Law provides all the insightful analysis and practical, expert advice you need, with detailed coverage of such important issues as: Affordable housing Special permit and variance decisions Zoning in Boston Nonconforming uses and structures Administrative appeal procedures Enforcement requests Building permits Vested rights Agricultural use exemptions Current tests for exactions SLAPP suit procedures Impact fees Civil rights challenges. Helpful tables facilitate convenient case law review, while forms and extensive cross-references add to the book's usefulness. Previous Edition: Handbook of Massachusetts Land Use and Planning Law, Third Edition, ISBN 9781454801474

Legal Foundations of Land Use Planning
Legal Foundations of Land Use Planning

Author: Jerome G. Rose

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-12

Total Pages: 881

ISBN-13: 1351509047

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Urban planning is a community process, the purpose of which is to develop and implement a plan for achieving community goals and objectives. In this process, planners employ a variety of disciplines, including law. However, the law is only an instrument of urban planning, and cannot solve all urban problems or meet all social needs. The ability of the legal system to implement the planning process is limited by philosophical, historical, and constitutional constraints. Jurisprudence is concerned with societal values and relationships that limit the effectiveness of the law as an instrument of urban planning. When law is definite and certain, freedom is enhanced within the boundaries created by the law. This doctrine of Anglo-American law imposes an obligation on courts to be guided by prior judicial decision or precedents and, when deciding similar matters, to follow the previously established rule unless the case is distinguishable due to facts or changed social, political, or economic conditions The author focuses on seven specific areas of law in relation to land use planning: law as an instrument of planning, zoning, exclusionary zoning and managed growth, subdivision regulations, site plan review and planned unit development, eminent domain, and the transfer of development rights. Jerome G. Rose cites more than one hundred court cases, and the indexed list serves as a useful encyclopedia of land use law. This is a valuable sourcebook for all legal experts, urban planners, and government officials.