A draft of my chapter on "Land Use Regulation" for the forthcoming Routledge Handbook on Classical Liberalism (edited by Richard Epstein, Liya Palagashvili, and Mario Rizzo) is now available on SSRN.

“What is the biggest impediment to development?” Hands down the response from people engaged in the development process is “the uncertain impact of government regulation.” The success of any business, ...

Charlotte and other cities across North Carolina are grappling with a little-noticed provision in the sweeping disaster relief and government reform bill approved by Republicans last month over former ...

The Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides that “No person shall be… deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, ...

I recently posted substantially revised versions of two new articles on land use and property rights issues to SSRN. The first is "The Constitutional Case Against Exclusionary Zoning" (coauthored with ...

Eagle County’s land use codes are a mishmash of regulations developed over decades. The county is now undertaking a comprehensive rewrite of those codes. On Tuesday, the Eagle County Board of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHEYENNE – After county officials released the first draft of the potential new Laramie County Land Use Regulations, landowners ...

Eagle County is revising its existing land use regulations, and the public is invited to weigh in via enCodePlus, an online platform. The public can provide comments through a module on the county’s ...

We document a Kuznets curve for construction productivity in 20th-century America. Homes built per construction worker remained stagnant between 1900 and 1940, boomed after World War II, and then ...

It's not surprising county governments in Benton and Washington counties have seen an increase in planning applications and inquiries since the Arkansas Legislature stripped so-called ...