Elon Musk Versus the California Coastal Commission
The state's powerful coastal land-use regulator is arguing its awesome development-stopping powers applies to rocket launches as well as housing.
The state's powerful coastal land-use regulator is arguing its awesome development-stopping powers applies to rocket launches as well as housing.
Costner stars, directs, and writes in what amounts to a three-hour prologue for a better movie.
The Institute for Justice has launched a project to reform land use regulation.
Sandy Martinez faces that bill because of driveway cracks, a storm-damaged fence, and cars parked on her own property that illegally touched her lawn.
Some progressives want to remove bureaucratic obstacles to growth—in the service of Democrats and big government.
Some progressives want to remove bureaucratic obstacles to growth—in the service of Democrats and big government.
The people who could benefit from new housing stock aren't on this map—they're exiled to unincorporated areas.
Can Caroline, New York, resist the imposition of its first-ever zoning code?
Land use policies explain the battles over everything from the Great Recession to abortion to Donald Trump.
Politicians' go-to fixes like child tax credits and federal paid leave are known for creating disincentives to work without much impact on fertility.
If you look closely, you'll find a lot of contradictions.
Both Los Angeles and San Francisco struggle with restrictive land use regulations that raise the costs and completion times of housing projects. That same red tape is now hobbling projects aimed at helping alleviate homelessness.
"By excluding environmental groups, we get a distorted picture about the value of our natural resources,” says Shawn Regan of the Property and Environment Research Center.
"Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest," wrote naturalist Aldo Leopold.
Land use regulation is making cities unaffordable. In an unfettered market, how would Americans choose to live?
Community planners don't have all the answers.
Regulation and litigation rule the day, but sometimes cash should be king.
"They want to put a bureaucratic noose around me," says Nancy Bass Wyden, third-generation owner of New York's best bookstore. "We're just asking to be left alone."
Nancy Bass Wyden says historic designation would compromise her ownership rights and mean dealing with bureaucrats who "do not know how to run a bookstore."
Steve and Dwight Hammond became a cause célèbre for angry ranchers and another example of inflexible mandatory minimum sentences.
Judge cites "flagrant prosecutorial misconduct" on the government's part.
Carlos Carrion has been growing bamboo in his yard for three decades; suddenly it's a crime.
Arden is a suburb, an artist's colony, and a radical political experiment.
Environmental Protection Agency
A controversial rule on water pollution allowed the agency to micromanage private land use.
Environmental activists go ballistic.
It's happening in California, where the case goes to penalty trial in August, if the Trump administration doesn't stop it before then.
And they've made the U.S. economy 9 percent smaller than it would it otherwise be.
An Indian city's embrace of globalism, trade, and hypergrowth is a living response to the protectionist impulse sweeping America.
Recent trends on population, farmland, deforestation, and urbanization are cause for optimism.
The city recently landmarked a giant Pepsi-Cola sign because of its "prominent siting."
A better way to keep track of who owns what land.
Terrorism is the use of violence against noncombatants for a political purpose. That's not what's happening here.
Tune into MSNBC after 8:40 p.m. ET to hear whether white ranchers are being treated differently than if they were Muslims
Relentlessly demonizing misunderstood opponents is a bad idea.
On the 50th anniversary of the Landmarks Preservation Act, a re-evaluation of the mythic demise of an iconic train station.
The 50th anniversary of the Landmarks Act is an opportunity to mourn all the invisible buildings that will never exist because of a misguided law.
Forget the clichés. L.A. isn't the capital of sprawl.
'The rest of us are assuming all of the risks.'
Raid may still be planned