Okay, I know we joke around that land use lawyers are "dirt" lawyers, but that's becoming literal for me. As you may recall, I blogged recently about a giant dirt pile in our neighborhood. Although everyone here in Athens
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New Approaches to Urban Redevelopment
Saturday I attended a very interesting lecture by Ken Reardon, who is a planning professor at The University of Memphis and a founding member of the Memphis Regional Design Center (MRDC). The lecture was part of an event called…
County Struggles to Pay for Unused Infrastructure Capacity
In our relatively short time as co-editors of this blog, we've written several times about the impact of the implosion of the housing market. (Just check out our housing and mortgage crisis categories for many of these posts.) Recently, the…
Manufactured Housing – People of Hope
While we're on the subject of manufactured housing I'd like to give a shout out to People of Hope. This Athens-based organization is creating the first resident-controlled, affordable manufactured home development in Georgia. This organization arose out of an…
Of (Tiger) Woods and Trees and Land Use
Ben Barros points us from Property Prof Blog to an article by Christopher Beam in Slate’s “Explainer” feature titled Stopping by Woods: Tiger Woods’ car crash caused $200 worth of damage to a tree. How do you measure that?According to the…
In Local News…
Here in Athens, Georgia we didn't have a local election on Tuesday, but there is some interesting downtown development news. The Athens-Clarke Commssion (we're a consolidated city/county) just voted to construct a new parking deck downtown, over the last…
Presenting at the National Community Land Trust Network
As I posted earlier this week, the National Community Land Trust Network is having their annual conference here in Athens. Four UGA busloads of folks came over from the Atlanta airport Tuesday and Wednesday and they're all now safely ensconced…
Community Land Trusts in Athens
This week the National Community Land Trust Network is having its annual conference here in Athens, Georgia. Here's their mission statement from their website:
The National Community Land Trust Network provides training, advocacyand resources for its member organizations which nurture
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ILN-terviews: Philip Dimitriou, D. & F. Dimitriou Law Firm
Welcome to ILN-terviews, a series of profiles of ILN member firm attorneys, designed to give a unique insight into the lawyers who make up our Network.For our latest interview, we chose ILN member, Philip Dimitriou of D. & F. Dimitriou…
Urban Chickens
Just a quick follow up to Chad Emerson's post about urban farming; the sub-issue of urban chickens. There's a fun article in a recent New Yorker magazine about raising chickens in an urban environment. The author briefly discusses the regulatory…