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- By Lolita Buckner Inniss, J.D., L.L.M., Associate Professor
of Law, Cleveland-Marshall School of Law, Cleveland State University,
Cleveland Ohio, Twelfth Annual National Conference on Private
Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N.Y., October 18, 2008)
Form-based code, a tool of New Urbanism, is not doing what
advocates claim. It tries to create by design what was spontaneous
over a century. The “collaborative” charette
process, ostensibly based on the “community,”
is monopolized by a small strand of people, the elite. New Urbanism
tries to recreate old urbanism, but old cities like New York
existed as a great range of neighborhood characters experienced
by different groups of people. Old urban centers were based on
wealth and inherently exclusionary. Zoning originated to protect
wealthy urban interests. Zoning contributes to the decline of
cities by excluding industrial workplaces from areas where workers
live.
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- Book Review by Nathaniel R. Dickinson (PRFA, July 2006)
The Essential Grizzly by Doug and Andrea Peacock (Lyons
Press, 2006)
Presumptions cripple this book on grizzlies. A blend of facts
and fiction, politics and advocacy, this compendium of essays
on grizzlies and the authors’ opinions on their importance
to man wastes an opportunity to compile reams of knowledge into
a credible work.
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- by Steve Miller, West River Editor, Rapid City Journal,
August 26, 2003 (Reprinted by permission of the Rapid City
Journal)
The South Dakota Farm Bureau began a petition drive to limit
perpetual conservation easements. “Unseen changes in the
future can place unintended hardships on future property owners,”
said Dick Kjerstad, president.
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- Claim filed after armed DEC officers entered on farm without
a warrant and stopped earth moving operations.
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- By Joe Zajicek, Iowa City, Iowa
Those in political power inflate farmers’ egos
by telling them that without them the world would starve, while
imposing land-use controls to keep farmers from selling the land
for its full value.
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- Speech by Carol W. LaGrasse, President, Property Rights
Foundation of America. Given at Town Hall, Warwick, New York.
Sponsored by LOCAL, Landowners Opposed to Confiscation of All
Land, October 29, 2001
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- By Devlen Mackey, Owner, Mackey Orchards, Belvidere, New
Jersey; Eleventh Annual National Conference on Private Property
Rights (PRFA, Albany, N.Y., October 13, 2007)
Farmers, local government, and developers are opposing the
state regional zoning law, the New Jersey Highlands Regional
Planning and Water Protection Act, which imposes 88-acre zoning
and exploits endangered species rules in Hunterdon, Warren, and
other northwestern New Jersey counties to stop the use of land.
The law is said to be intended to protect the watershed for drinking
water, but sewers to keep flow from Lake Hopatcong are prohibited
by the Department of Environmental Protection.
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- by Scott Webber, Reprinted by permission from the Warwick
Valley Dispatch, November 7, 2001
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- By Carol W. LaGrasse (“Worth Commenting,” Reprinted
from the New York Property Rights Clearinghouse, Vol. 10, No.
1, PRFA, Winter 2006)
Most property owners faced with the threatening experience
of dealing with DEC wetlands bureaucrats and APA officials are
so terrified that that they will not ask their elected representatives
for assistance. Anyway, representatives can not be counted on
to help property owners facing unjust environmental permit conditions
and enforcement, but, instead, are good at getting grants for
communities.
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- A Report on the Adirondack Council Available.
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- By Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA, January 2003)
Federal court rules that according to Missouri law, the land
underlying an abandoned railroad in Missouri reverted to the
property owners. The government has to pay the first thirteen
underlying owners $410,000, with more to follow along the 225-mile
Katy Trail.
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- Free Web Music Swapping Company Ordered to Move Quickly.
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- Update-April 2001.
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- Speech by Robert J. Smith from Proceedings of the Fourth
Annual New York Conference on Private Property Rights (1999).
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- Consider these questions before you allow site plan review
by a planning board.
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-Speech by Frederick William Meeker from Proceedings of
the Fourth Annual New York Conference on Private Property
Rights (PRFA 1999).
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- Details of the 10th Annual Fly-In for Freedom
hosted by the Alliance for America - May19-20, 2001.
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- Speech by William R. Sayre from Proceedings of the Fourth
Annual New York Conference on Private Property Rights (1999).
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- Index page of information about forestry issues on the
national scene.
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-by James S. Burling, Senior Counsel, Pacific Legal Foundation,
Speech to the Ninth Annual National Conference on Private
Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N.Y., October 22, 2005)
Go to the mirror to see the real enemy of property rights,
ourselves. Pacific Legal Foundation has won lawsuits such as
the Suitum and Palazzolo cases by looking at what
happens to real-life people hit by regulations. In the older
Nollan and Dolan cases, the property owner won
because of the nonsensical results of regulation. But an oil
company was not a sympathetic litigant in Chevron v. Lingle,
and the justices failed to grasp economic logic.
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- (PRFA, February 6, 2004)
The great New York Yankees pitcher Jim Bouton led a battle
to save treasured Wahconah Park, in Pittsfield, Mass., one of
the oldest in America, having hosted professional baseball since
1892. Bouton narrates how he brought the community together against
a new government-financed stadium, battling the City Council,
which could wield eminent domain. Dickinson draws a parallel
to the Nets stadium proposed for Brooklyn, N.Y.
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- The experience of Gary Vegliante, Mayor, Village of Westhampton
Dunes, Westhampton Beach, as given in a speech from Proceedings
of the Third Annual New York Conference on Private Property Rights
(1998).
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- by Nate Dickinson.
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- Index page of information about Americans who have had
to leave America in order to feel free of government repression.
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(With Sample Letter) - By Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA Background
Brief, December 2004)
Knowledge is the first key to success in defending private
property rights. Although based on New York and federal freedom
of information law, this article has important information applicable
anywhere in the United States.
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- Index page of information about Freedom of Information
and Open Government in New York.
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- Index page of information about Freedom of Speech and Property
Rights in New York.
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-Speech by Reginald G. Jones from Proceedings of the Fifth
Annual New York Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA,
2000).
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- By Randal O’Toole, Bandon, Oregon, Director - American
Dream Coalition of the Independence Institute, Senior Fellow
- Cato Institute, and Senior Economist - Thoreau Institute; Twelfth
Annual National Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA,
Albany, N.Y., October 18, 2008)
States like Oregon that have “growth management”
laws require that an urban growth boundary be drawn around cities,
to stop growth beyond the boundary and “densify”
development within the boundary. This has driven up housing costs
and been a big factor in the housing bubble. Along with imposing
the urban growth boundary, cities build light rail lines to reduce
automobile use and thereby reduce emissions of carbon dioxide,
which is thought to be a primary cause of global warming. But
light rail is not effective either in attracting riders or reducing
carbon dioxide. Efficient cars are better at reducing emissions
per passenger mile and cheaper.
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- Nate Dickinson’s insight about the progress
of democracy and liberty. Is the future a single trend or separate
paths?
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