Summaries for: Urban planning
Towns seek overturn Florida law that relaxes local development rules
Florida municipalities are seeking to overturn the Community Renewal Law, enacted this summer that relaxed development requirements and ended a regional planning process for major projects of regional impact. Their lawsuit accuses the state of imposing unfunded land use requirements on local communities.
Chad Emerson, an associate professor at Faulkner University School of Law, examines the ...
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R&D investment that sparked famous Kelo land-taking now to close
Pfizer will close the research and development facility it built in New London that was cited in the celebrated Kelo v City of New London case as a catalyst for the US Supreme Court to uphold the taking of Susette Kelo's home by eminent domain in the name of economic development.The pharmaceutical firm built a $300 million research and ...
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Stop opposition before they stop you – a day in the field with Saint
(Saint Consulting project managers use their political campaign experience to go into neighborhoods and identify support and opposition to our clients' development proposals. This is the first of occasional posts from the field by one of our project managers)
By Saint Consulting Staff
For the past few weeks, I have found myself in an upscale suburb of a ...
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Ways to kill a real estate project – how opponents try to derail development, Part 2
By Patrick Fox,
President, The Saint Consulting Group
The Saint Consulting Group often does seminars for trade associations, client real estate departments and other groups. A popular topic is “How to Kill a Real Estate Project”. By learning the techniques that opposition groups utilize to derail a project, developers can learn how to avoid common mistakes and ...
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125 arguments and techniques opponents use to derail a real estate project — Part 1
By Patrick Fox,President, The Saint Consulting GroupThe Saint Consulting Group often does seminars for trade associations, client real estate departments and other groups. A popular topic is “How to Kill a Real Estate Project”. By learning the techniques that opposition groups utilize to derail a project, developers can learn how to avoid common mistakes and ...
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Cincinnati pols eye school funds to cover deficit on sports stadiums
By Steve Shepherd,Vice President for communications, The Saint Consulting GroupWhile folks in Arlington, Texas, bust their buttons with hometown pride over the billion-dollar football stadium they helped Jerry Jones build for his Dallas Cowboys, taxpayers in Hamilton County, Ohio, have a serious case of buyer’s remorse over their 1996 vote to fund new stadiums for ...
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Help me, help you – reaching out to community helps developers
By Ben Kelahan,Senior Vice President for Energy, The Saint Consulting Group "Help me, Help You" Although the line from Jerry MaGuire is humorous, there is nothing funny about the importance of working with communities and taking those steps to mitigate problems with a land use application that is feasible and responsible. ...
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When lobby laws clash with land use laws
By Jeffrey Gould
Vice President & General Counsel, The Saint Consulting Group
There is an increasing trend across the nation to expand the definition of lobbying to include grassroots efforts to organize people to support or oppose land use development projects. Many states, counties, and municipalities now require registration and onerous disclosures for efforts that should be ...
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Commercial real estate expert: full recovery 2½ years away, vacancy rate key
By Owen Eagan, Division Manager for Southern California, The Saint Consulting Group During a panel discussion for Pepperdine MBA alumni in downtown Los Angeles last month, Robert Chavez, former CEO and founder of Staubach LA and current president and CEO of Guardian Commercial Realty, said that a full recovery in the commercial real estate ...
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NIMBYs put brakes on voter-backed California $10 billion high-speed rail link
By Owen Eagan, Division Manager, Southern California, The Saint Consulting Group First, California voters approved a $10 billion high-speed rail link between Los Angeles and San Francisco .Then the state found no buyers for the newly authorized rail bonds, thanks to the credit crunch. Now NIMBY and environmental forces that oppose wind farm transmission lines ...
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