This comprehensive and clearly written Understanding treatise addresses zoning, land use, and environmental regulation in a national, jurisdiction-independent manner. Understanding the Law of Zoning and Land Use Controls is divided into the following six parts:

Part 1: Fundamental Concepts: The Police Power, Takings, and Zoning

Part 2: The Zoning Forms of Action

Part 3: Economic Discrimination and Zoning

Part 4: Wetlands and Beaches

Part 5: Regulating the User, Not the Use

Part 6: Halting an Owner's Further Regulation

The book also includes a glossary of Land Use Terms.

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