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- Index page of information about strategies for citizens
to defeat zoning and building codes that infringe on property
rights in New York.
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- Index page of information about strategies for citizens
to defeat zoning and building codes that infringe on property
rights around the nation.
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- By Carol W. LaGrasse., President, Property Rights Foundation
of America, Inc., Twelfth Annual National Conference on Private
Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N.Y., October 18, 2008)
Delivered as the welcome address, this speech gave LaGrasse’s
overview from personal experience and observations, first as
a civil engineer practicing in New York City and over most recent
decades involved in private property rights in upstate New York.
City zoning serves well-connected interests. The State’s
regional Adirondack zoning for supposedly environmental purposes
is in reality the product of scheming wealthy New York City interests,
as well. Building codes have gone far beyond their original purpose
to protect public health and safety, to micromanage and obstruct
private homeowners’ plans.
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- A Short Zoning Glossary of Key Rulings by Carol W. LaGrasse,
from Positions on Property, Vol. 3, No. 2, May 1996.
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- By Carol W. LaGrasse, Speech sponsored by Austerlitz Citizens
Together (ACT), Spencertown, New York, May 22, 2006
The other side of rural zoning includes interest-driven preservation
grants, unrealistic assumptions about the countryside, formulaistic
studies and plans by consultants, and strait jacketing of grandfathered
small businesses. Instead, private property rights and freedom
should be paramount.
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- The Broad Picture Overlooked by the Press, speech by Carol W. LaGrasse
to the National Conference of Editorial Writers, September 20,
1997, Madison, Wisconsin.
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