Thanks for the great seminar. Hope to attend in the years to come. This annual course of study is designed to provide an effective and efficient review of current issues in land use for attorneys, planners, public officials, developers, and academics. The course begins with a discussion of recent court decisions, which provides a common foundation for all registrants to build a better understanding of the current state of land use planning law. Moratoria and Temporary Takings.
Local governments continue to use moratoria to stop or pause development activity.
This panel reviews recent successful and unsuccessful moratoria use and temporary takings challenges. Ethical Considerations in Growth Management, Smart Growth and Regional Planning. This first of two hour-long ethics panels discusses the challenges that political pressure and economic realities have on both attorneys and planners involved in planning and regulatory activities. A Case Study of Coffee Creek Station, Chestertown, Indiana. New Urbanism projects have experienced many of the permitting problems of traditional development.