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Free Speech Law for On Premise Signs 2022 Edition, a book by Professor Daniel R. Mandelker, is available here for download.

For the 2023 supplement click here.

Designing Planned Communities, a book by Professor Daniel R. Mandelker, is available here for download. The images included in the book are available here.

For Articles by Professor Mandelker, click here.


ABA Model Land Use Procedures Act

The American Bar Association adopted a model land use procedures code. You can access the code here and the appendix here. For a brochure about the Model Act, click here.


Recent Additions

February 27, 2024

Discovery Builders, Inc. v. City of Oakland, 992 Cal.App.5th 799 (2023) to Cases.

Vision Warriors Church, Inc. v. Cherokee County Board of Commissioners, 2024 WL 125969 (C.D. CA  2023) to Cases.

Brookline Opportunities, LLC v. Town of Brookline, 2023 WL 4405659  (U.S. District Court, District of New Hampshire. 2023) to Cases.

Breaking Ground: An Examination of Effective State Housing Reforms in 2023 (Mercatus Center 2023), Eli Kahn & Salim Furth to Articles and Reports.

Minneapolis Land Use Reforms Offer a Blueprint for Housing Affordability (Pew 2024), by Linlin Liang, Adam Staveski & Alex Horowitz to Articles and Reports.

New Pathways to Encourage Housing Production: A Review of California’s Recent Housing Legislation (Terner Center 2023), William Fulton, et al., to Articles and Reports.

November 17, 2023

Kirwan v City of Deadwood, 990 N.W.2d 108 (S.D. 2023) to Cases.

Hamilton Southside Historic Preservation Association v. Zoning Board of Adjustment of City of Hamilton, 531 P.3d 584 (MT 2023) to Cases.

Way v. City of Santa Ana, 2023 WL 4680804 (C.D. CA  2023) to Cases.

Cellco Partnership v White Deer Township Zoning Hearing Board, 74 F.4th 96  (3rd Cir. CA. 2023) to Cases.

September 12, 2023

2023 Supplement to Free Speech Law for On-Premises Signs

Knight v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson County, 67 F.4th 816 (6th Cir. 2023) to Cases.

South Lake Tahoe Property Owners Group v. City of South Lake Tahoe, 92. Cal. App. 5th 735 (2023) to Cases.

City of Danville v. C.A. Collins Enterprises, LLC 2023 IL App (5th) 220345 (2023) to Cases.

3000-3032 St. Claude Avenue, LLC v. City of New Orleans, 2022-0812 (La.App. 4 Cir. 6/22/23) to Cases.