As the effort to move away from litigation and toward mediation increases, the panel offers outlines to guide both sides in more productive ways to represent their clients in the negotiations. The past year has seen a substantial increase in the Smart Growth rhetoric. It also has seen efforts to implement Smart Growth principles. Even with all the innovations in the land use regulatory field, these basic governmental tools remain in widespread use. Faculty members who spend a good portion of their practice dealing with the approval process discuss key practice pointers that will help make registrants more effective in representing the array of clients involved in planning and development approval activities.
Checklists are an important part of the presentations.
Time is set aside throughout the program for faculty interaction and to address written questions submitted by the registrants. And, as in the past, the faculty addresses specific questions submitted in advance by the registrants. A multi-volume set of specially prepared study outlines and related material will be distributed at the course site. To ensure that study materials are as timely as possible, books generally are not printed until immediately before the program, and thus are not usually available in advance of the course for which they are prepared. To order these materials separately, please use the form provided.