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Development Agreements
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Land Use Law Blog
Join William Abbott And Harriet Steiner On June 26, 2020 For A Virtual Course On Vested Rights, Vesting Maps And Development Agreements Through UC Davis Extension
William Abbott and Harriet Steiner will teach a joint virtual course on June 26, 2020 titled, “Vested Rights, Vesting Maps and Development Agreements.” The seminar is hosted by UC Davis…
Keeping It Real Estate
Can tolerances be intolerable? What happens when a building is built the wrong size?
By Sanjay Dave
It's commonplace for the floor area of a proposed development to be set subject to certain agreed tolerances. These provide an amount of flexibility to a developer and are usually…
Cannabis
California Cannabis Development Agreements: Part Three
By Julie Hamill
[caption id="attachment_28489" align="alignright" width="360"] You get what you negotiate in development agreements.[/caption] This is the third post in our three-part series on development agreements in California. In our first post we…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
Development Agreements Cannot Be Adopted By Initiative
By Perkins Coie
A development agreement cannot be adopted by initiative, the California court of appeal ruled in Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice v. City of Moreno Valley, 26 Cal. App.…
Land Use Law Blog
Local Voters May Not Exercise the Initiative Power to Approve a Development Agreement
Center for Community Action & Environmental Justice v. City of Moreno Valley (Aug. 23, 2018, case no. D073451) ___ Cal.App.5th ___. The right of initiative and referendum is embedded in…
Cannabis
California Cannabis Development Agreements: Part One
By Julie Hamill
[caption id="attachment_27689" align="alignright" width="378"] California municipalities are missing the mark on development agreements.[/caption] Development agreements have become a popular tool for California municipalities regulating commercial cannabis activities. We’ve talked a…
Land Use Prof Blog
Stephen R. Miller on Contemporary Issues in Teaching Land Use: Question 7: How Do You Teach the Contract Transformation in Land Use Regulation?
[While updating the recently released ninth edition to the casebook Land Use and Sustainable Development Law, the four co-authors engaged in numerous spirited discussions about teaching land use. We wanted…
Larkin Hoffman Real Estate and Construction Blog
Can You Avoid the Development Contract Trap?
By Peter Coyle
Virtually all local government jurisdictions in the United States follow a development code when evaluating a proposed development application (Houston, Texas is a notable exception, along with rural townships dominated…
Land Use Law Blog
A Cautionary Tale About Development Agreements: The Panoche Valley Utility-Scale Solar Project
PRIVATE LAND USE SETTLEMENTS: The potential fallout when a private side settlement agreement fails to settle your legal woes. In 2010, the County of San Benito granted a conditional use…
Ahead of Schedule
Idaho Reads Force Majeure Clause Broadly as Written
By Tamara Boeck
In a ruling supporting common sense, the Idaho Supreme Court ruled that a county could not avoid the application of a broad force majeure clause in its development agreement with…