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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.

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.

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.

We gratefully acknowledge the research of Jonathan Herczeg, New York University Law School Class of 2008, whose unpublished paper on the history of New York City’s 1961 zoning resolution provided us with valuable background on the politics of New York’s zoning.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Many thanks to Lee Fennell, Susan Koniak, Adam Levitin, Claire Priest, Julie Roin, and Jacob Sagi.