Cities

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77.1
Entrenching Environmentalism: Private Conservation Easements over Public Land
Christopher Serkin
Associate Professor, Brooklyn Law School

Thanks to the Symposium organizers and attendees for their input. I am indebted to Vicki Been, Michael Cahill, Clay Gillette, David Golove, Lucy Gratwick, Rick Hills, Ted Janger, Gerald Korngold, Bill Nelson, and Nelson Tebbe for stimulating conversations about the topic. Thanks to Gideon Parchomovsky and to the junior faculty at Brooklyn Law School for feedback on an early draft.

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Essay
77.1
Rethinking the Theory and Practice of Local Economic Development
Richard C. Schragger
Professor of Law, Class of 1948 Professor in Scholarly Research in Law, University of Virginia School of Law

Many thanks to Risa Goluboff for extensive comments on this draft and to the organizers of (and participants in) the Symposium, Reassessing the State and Local Government Toolkit at The University of Chicago Law School.

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Essay
77.1
Direct Voting by Property Owners
Thomas W. Merrill
Charles Evans Hughes Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

This Article has benefited from comments of participants at The Univeristy of Chicago Law School’s Symposium, Rethinking the State and Local Government Toolkit, and from a faculty workshop at Wisconsin Law School. Many thanks to Bob Ellickson for reading and commenting on an earlier version of this Article and to Erin Brantley Webb for outstanding research assistance.

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77.1
The Steep Costs of Using Noncumulative Zoning to Preserve Land for Urban Manufacturing
Roderick M. Hills, Jr
William T. Comfort, III, Professor of Law, New York University Law School
David Schleicher
Assistant Professor of Law, George Mason University Law School

We gratefully acknowledge the research of Jonathan Herczeg, New York University Law School Class of 2008, whose unpublished paper on the history of New York City’s 1961 zoning resolution provided us with valuable background on the politics of New York’s zoning.

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77.1
Who Should Authorize a Commuter Tax?
Clayton P. Gillette
Max E. Greenberg Professor of Contract Law, New York University School of Law

Thanks for comments from participants in the Symposium, Reassessing the State and Local Government Toolkit at The University of Chicago Law School and a faculty workshop at New York University School of Law.

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Essay
77.1
Affordable Private Education and the Middle Class City
Nicole Stelle Garnett
Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School

I received valuable comments from participants in The University of Chicago Law School’s Symposium, Rethinking the State and Local Government Toolkit, and from Tricia Bellia, Peg Brinig, Rick Garnett, Mark McKenna, and John Nagle. Jessica Laux and Mariangela Sullivan provided excellent research assistance.

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Essay
77.1
Controlling Residential Stakes
Lee Anne Fennell
Professor of Law, The University of Chicago Law School
Julie A. Roin
Seymour Logan Professor of Law, The University of Chicago Law School

We thank Amnon Lehavi, Lior Strahilevitz, participants in The University of Chicago Law School’s Symposium, Reassessing the State and Local Government Toolkit, and participants in the 2009 Property Works in Progress conference held at the University of Colorado School of Law for helpful comments and questions on this project. Prisca Kim and Eric Singer provided excellent research assistance.

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Essay
77.1
How to Undermine Tax Increment Financing: The Lessons of City of Chicago v ProLogis
Richard A. Epstein
The James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, The University of Chicago Law School; The Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution; and Visiting Professor at New York University Law School

In the interests of full disclosure, I advised ProLogis on some of the legal and economic issues connected with its brief. The opinions expressed here are of course my own.