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Has Preservation Become a Dangerous Epidemic?

" . . . And is it destroying our cities?" That’s how this NY Times piece starts out, but it isn’t an anti-HP property rights screed. It’s an exhibition review of "Cronocaos," at the New Museum: An Architect’s Fear that… [...]

The Demise of Historic Preservation?

As federal, state, and local governments face expanding budget crises, will historic preservation programs be one of the first items on the chopping block? President Obama’s February budget proposal would have eliminated Save America’s Treasures and Pr… [...]

Before Mountain Top Removal . . . Historic Designation Removal

NPR this evening featured a story about a dispute in West Virginia over the preservation of Blair Mountain, site of a 1921 miner uprising that claimed the lives of 100 men. Massey Energy, owner of the mine in which 29… [...]

Tax Breaks For Conservation Easements May Get Even Sweeter

As some of you may know, I am obsessed with intrigued by conservation easements. A strong motivator for some conservation easements (but not all or even necessarily most) is the availability of federal income tax deductions. A current bill in… [...]

Public Funding for Religious Landmark Upheld

U.S. District Judge Michael McCuskey (C.D. Ill.) has dismissed (Jurist story here) an Establishment Clause lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Illinois Commerce and Economic Opportunity Department’s awarding of a restoration grant for the … [...]

Housing Fellowship Program in New York

Here is an announcement that may be of interest to your students: HPD-HDC Housing Fellows Program 2011-2013 The NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) is the nation’s largest municipal housing preservation and development agency… [...]

Scouting, Walking, & Blogging New York

Among the many reasons that I am passionate about the subject of land use law, these three are among the most important: First, it is historical–studying land uses in our cities, towns, and rural areas gives us a sense of… [...]

Carousels vs. Conservation in Brooklyn

In the small world department, at a wedding in December I met a student of Patricia Salkin’s. Andrew Stengel, a "non-traditional" second-year student at Albany Law School, is a member of the school’s Government Law Review. Andrew has also served… [...]

Dolan on the Salazar cross, historic preservation, and federal land transfers

Mary Jean Dolan (John Marshall-Chicago) has posted P.S. Untold Stories and the Cross National Monument. We’ve mentioned the land use aspects of the Salazar decision before. Dolan’s abstract: This Article offers an interesting post script to the Supreme… [...]

Kratzke on Russia’s New Land Code

William P. Kratzke (Memphis) has posted Russia’s New Land Code: A Two Percent Solution, from the Minnesota Journal of International Law, Vol. 12. The abstract: On October 25, 2001, President Vladimir Putin signed the Land Code of the Russian Federation… [...]