Practice Focus: Land use, real estate, and environmental law, principally wetlands and coastal.
Expanded and updated throughout, Planning and Control of Land Development provides a comprehensive view of land use law integrated with a full review of planning practice and techniques. This Eighth Edition retains the organization, features and approaches that have made prior editions well-received, but has been revised with several significant enhancements. Author: Dwight Merriam, CRE
Practitioners, planning professionals and students will value the information and insights in this newer edition in a popular series of books on land use law. It contains a compilation of ABA Section of State and Local Government Law committee reports from The Urban Lawyer, including a wide range of topics such as cellular telecom facilities, green buildings, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, fair housing issues, eminent domain issues and ethical issues. Author: Dwight Merriam, CRE
I am a lawyer and land use planner, a Fellow in the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, a Fellow and Past President and of the American Institute of Certified Planners, and Past Chair of the ABA Section of State and Local Government Law. I am in private practice as a solo, limited to land use, wetlands, and coastal law. I am also a writer and educator. I have published over 200 articles and 13 books, including the best-selling McGraw-Hill book, The Complete Guide to Zoning, and co-editing the leading treatise in land use law, Rathkopf’s The Law of Zoning and Planning, and for 40 years I have taught as an adjunct professor at several law schools and planning programs. UMass BA (cum laude), UNC MRP, and Yale JD.