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Regulatory takings

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Protecting beaches and dunes

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Preserving water dependent uses

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Cumulative and secondary impacts

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Comprehensive planning and zoning

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Harbor management
  

Readings (Blackboard)
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Kalo: 279 - 317; 333 - 368
Res #19: Schoenbaum, Thomas J., Ronald H. Rosenberg, Holly D. Doremus. 2002. Environmental Policy Law. Fourth Edition. New York, NY: Foundation Press. pp. 196 - 215. (Library reserve)
Res #20: Marine Law Institute. 1988. Managing the Shoreline for Water Dependent Uses: A Handbook of Legal Tools. North Atlantic Water Dependent Use Study. Portland, ME: Marine Law Institute. pp. 45 – 154.
Res #21: Marine Law Institute. 1988. Managing the Shoreline for Water Dependent Uses: A Handbook of Legal Tools. North Atlantic Water Dependent Use Study. Portland, ME: Marine Law Institute. pp. 165 - 180.
Res #22: Goodwin, Robert F.. 1999. “Redeveloping Deteriorated Urban Waterfronts: The Effectiveness of U.S. Coastal Management Programs.” Coastal Management 27 (no. 2/3, April): 239 – 269.
Res #28: Marine Law Institute. 1988. Managing the Shoreline for Water Dependent Uses: A Handbook of Legal Tools. North Atlantic Water Dependent Use Study. Portland, ME: Marine Law Institute. pp. 155 – 164.
Article on Sprawl in NC
Downs, Anthony. 2005. "Smart Growth: Why we discuss it more than we do it." Journal of the American Planning Association 71 (No.4): 367-80.
Recommended:
Beatley: 197 - 247
  

Handouts
bulletLucas and its aftermath
bulletArticle on Palazzolo v. Rhode Island
bulletHandout on the Palazzolo decision
bulletHandout on a takings case affecting Lake Tahoe
bulletHandout on a recent Supreme Court takings case that split 4-4
bulletHandout on the Endangered Species Act and takings
bullet Handouts on the Kelo decision
bulletKelo Supreme Court Decision (Syllabus, Majority, concurring Majority, Dissent, Dissent)
bullet Handout: Setbacks & Inlets in NC (Star News)
bullet Handout: Coastal Building Standards in NC (Star News)
bullet Handout: Sprawl in GA
bullet Editorial - Saving NC's eroding shoreline (3/07)
bullet Handout - Regulating signage in Ocean Isle Beach
bullet Roberta Gove v Zoning Board of Appeals of Chatham, MA (decision) (Zoning by-laws challenged)
  

Web Links & Resources
bullet State of Takings Law – CSPAN 10/28/92 – Conference of Judicial Scholars discussing state of property rights and takings law (Occurs shortly after the Lucas case.  Ken Star the U.S. Solicitor General is in the first segment.  David Lucas and Cotton Harness discusses the case at the 1:32 min mark, followed by a panel looking at potential impacts at 2:19)
bullet YouTube video on Supreme Court's Decision in Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council v. TRPA
bullet YouTube video on basics of inverse condemnation law
bullet YouTube - The Story of Susette Kelo
bullet Youtube - Kelo - Five Years Later
bullet YouTube - Eminent Domain for the Nets new stadium
bullet YouTube - Eminent Domain in Hollywood, CA
bullet Legal Information Institute (Download Supreme Court Decisions)
bulletFindLaw  - Supreme Court web page
bullet Wikipedia - Definition of regulatory taking
bulletMississippi-Alabama  Sea Grant Legal Program
bullet Mississippi-Alabama SGLP - Article on Takings and Property rights legislation in the gulf states
bulletGeorgetown Environmental Law and Policy Institute
bullet Community Rights Council (contains legal resources to defend takings claims)
bullet Reason Foundation - eminent domain and takings (Libertarian in orientation)
bullet CATO - Handbook for 108th Congress - Section 15 on property rights and regulatory takings
bulletpropertyrightsresearch.org
bullet Property Rights Alliance
bulletPacific Legal Foundation (Advocates less government and the preservation of free enterprise, private property rights and individual liberties)
bulletWashington Legal Foundation (public interest law-advocating free-enterprise principles, limited government, property rights, and reform of the civil and criminal justice system)
bullet Mapping the spread of Walmart Across the United States
   

Recommended Books, Articles, and Government Reports
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