FOUR VIRTUAL SESSIONS:
Tuesday, February 7 and Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Tuesday, February 14 and Wednesday, February 15, 2023

This Annual Land Use Institute program is designed for attorneys, professional planners, and government officials involved in land use planning, zoning, permitting, property development, conservation and environmental protection, and related litigation. It not only addresses and analyzes the state-of-the-art efforts by the government to manage land use and development, but also presents the key issues faced by property owners and developers in obtaining necessary governmental approvals.

This program outstanding features:

• Preeminent faculty of practitioners and academics who provide a nationwide

HOUSTON (AP) — Embattled Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s years-delayed trial on securities fraud charges will have to wait until his separate impeachment trial is concluded, lawyers and the judge in the case said Thursday.

During the brief court hearing in Houston that was attended by Paxton, his lawyers asked state District Judge Andrea Beall to delay any decision on setting a trial date until the attorney general’s impeachment trial, set to begin Sept. 5, is finished. Dan Cogdell, one of Paxton’s attorneys, said he expects the impeachment trial to last a couple of weeks.

“What I would request is

This post was authored by Sebastian Perez, JD, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Touro Law Center

In 1994, John Reeve and Sandra Reeve (the “Reeves”) acquired property in the Town of Riverhead (the “Subject Property”). Subsequently, in 2013, the Reeves constructed a dock, ramps, and floats on a portion of the Subject Property, following the issuance of building permits and a certificate of occupancy. However, the petitioners appealed against the legality of the permits, leading the Town of Riverhead Zoning Board of Appeals (the “ZBA”) to declare the construction unauthorized. In response to the illegal construction ruling, the Reeves submitted the Application

The jury in Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial will soon begin weighing the accused killer’s innocence or guilt of the brutal 7 June 2021 murders of his wife Maggie and son Paul.

On Thursday morning, the defence will deliver closing arguments in the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro where the disgraced attorney’s legal team hopes to plant reasonable doubt in the minds of jurors.

Then, following the state’s rebuttal argument, jury deliberations will begin – bringing the 54-year-old one step closer to learning his fate.

This comes after prosecutor Creighton Waters delivered the state’s three-hour closing argument on Wednesday.

He

This post was authored by Sebastian Perez, JD, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Touro Law Center

Nonprofit Christian organization (the “Organization”) appealed the planning board’s (the “Board”) denial of its application to build a recreational vehicle (RV) campground on its property, arguing that the proposed campground was within Dover Amendment’s (the “Amendment”) limits on the ability of municipalities to control the use of land or structures for religious purposes. The Land Court Department, Berkshire County, entered judgment in part for Organization. Board appealed, and the Organization cross-appealed. The Supreme Judicial Court on its initiative transferred the case from the Appeals Court.

The

A Canadian aircraft searching for the missing Titan submarine in the Atlantic Ocean detected intermittent “banging” noises from the vicinity of the last known location of the divers.

This discovery was shared via internal e-mails sent to the heads of the Department of Homeland Security.

The crew searching for the missing sub heard banging sounds every 30 minutes on Tuesday and again four hours later, after additional sonar devices were deployed.

CEO and founder of OceanGate Expeditions Stockton Rush, British billionaire explorer Hamish Harding, renowned French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet and Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman Dawood

Alex Murdaugh is set to face a further grilling from prosecutor Creighton Waters as cross-examination resumes in the double murder trial that has captured attention across the globe.

On Friday morning, the disgraced attorney will return to the witness stand in Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, South Carolina, where he is on trial for the brutal slayings of his wife Maggie and son Paul.

In what is likely to be a dramatic day in court, Mr Waters is likely to confront the accused killer head on about the murders.

While the cross grew increasingly combative on Thursday, the prosecutor did

Transfer of Development Rights in Urban-Rural Settings: A Conservation and Pro-Housing Strategy for Michigan

Jessie Williams

By “moving” development rights from preserved land parcels to provide density increases elsewhere, transfer of development rights (“TDR”) programs combat urban sprawl and preserve natural and agricultural open space, while incentivizing urban planning best practices such as increased housing density and urban infill.^[1] TDR programs are voluntary, allowing agricultural landowners to gain an economic windfall by selling rights to develop their land, while allowing for more housing density in designated receiving sites.^[2] TDR programs are currently not implemented in Michigan, due in