All Posts Tagged With: "zoning"

Gas Prices: The Latest Excuse to Reengineer Society

As someone who commutes 16 miles each way to work in a gas-guzzling sports car along the LA-area freeways, I’ve been less-than-amused by the nearly $5 a gallon I must pay for the premium fuel that keeps my mid-life-crisis-mobile running. Yet despite the misery of high prices, I’ve taken a certain joy in watching the [...]

1Nov2008 | Steven Greenhut | 0 comments | Continued

Re-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy

Edited by Robert Higgs and Carl P. Close Reviewed by Michael Sanera

1Mar2007 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | Continued

Jane Jacobs

Jane Jacobs, one of the most important and influential public intellectuals of the twentieth century, died last April, a few days shy of her ninetieth birthday. The intellectual legacy she left for social theorists is as significant as that of anyone else of her generation. She was the author of nine books, including The Economy [...]

1Sep2006 | Mike | 1 comment | Continued

New Urbanism: Same Old Social Engineering

What should libertarians think of an increasingly influential land-use and planning movement known as the New Urbanism,
which seeks a broad change in the way cities and suburbs
develop?

1Apr2006 | Steven Greenhut | 3 comments | Continued

The Tyranny of Local Government

Thanks to the recent decision rendered by the Supreme Court in Kelo v. City of New London, citizens across the nation have a new reason to fear government.

1Nov2005 | Paul Messino | 1 comment | Continued

The Blight of Eminent Domain

My sister-in-law came back from a recent trip to Poland outraged at how that former communist country treats its citizens. An acquaintance of hers owns a beautiful home in the Polish countryside and is now involved in an ugly court battle because a government official was so impressed with the property that he began the [...]

1Sep2002 | Steven Greenhut | 8 comments | Continued

Adventures in Zoning

I live on a quiet dead-end street in a small suburb of Cleveland. A local developer’s plans for a little vacant lot across the street from my house recently led me into the arcane world of municipal land-use planning. The story of this lot illustrates several important lessons about how governments actually function. The lot [...]

1Jul2001 | Andrew P. Morriss | 0 comments | Continued

Property and Freedom

Bernard Siegan, professor of law at the University of San Diego, has been a pioneer in the analysis of government land-use controls. His 1972 book, Land Use Without Zoning, is a classic. If you want to rock a zoning advocate back on his heels, reading that book is the best preparation. The fact that Siegan [...]

1Aug1998 | George C. Leef | 1 comment | Continued

Government Versus the Environment

When the subject is the environment, the public perception is that a resource of such importance can only be adequately safeguarded by the benevolent, all-encompassing hands of the government. Whether that protection comes in the guise of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Forest Service, the Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, or any of [...]

1Feb1998 | Russell Madden | 18 comments | Continued

For Appearance’s Sake

Don’t let people control the appearance of their property. That’s the view of Montgomery County (Texas) Judge Alan “Barb” Sadler. During the spring of 1995, he proposed a law to restrict commercial signs on strips of privately owned land along rural highways in his county. Mr. Sadler decried the “general decay of the area, and [...]

1Nov1996 | James D. Saltzman | 0 comments | Continued

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