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NBI Legal Continuing Education Seminars

Practical Guide to Zoning and Land Use Law

Course Description


Navigate the Zoning Process With an In-Depth Understanding of Zoning Regulations

Are you current on your knowledge of zoning laws? Can you confidently solve potential problems and ensure smooth zoning processes? Join us at this seminar where you'll learn to facilitate positive outcomes by understanding key components of the approval process, procedures for challenging a zoning decision, as well as requirements for administrative appeals. Recognize constitutional limitations on zoning actions to ensure your actions are within the bounds of the law. Enroll today!

  • Know the necessary steps - on a local, regional and state level - for obtaining a permit.
  • Review the limits on governmental power so you know how takings and exactions must be handled.
  • Fulfill your role in the process when a zoning case is litigated or when a decision is appealed.
  • Represent your clients with confidence with an in-depth understanding of key zoning concepts.
  • Understand the constitutional limitations on zoning so you can handle questions of eminent domain with ease.
  • Know the steps you need to take to fight for your client during an appeal of an administrative zoning decision.
  • Take your zoning knowledge to the next level with an in-depth understanding of the process for adopting and amending the zoning ordinances and map.

Agenda

  • ROADMAP FOR NAVIGATING THE APPROVAL PROCESS
    9:00 - 10:15, Megan C. Clark
    • Authority for Land Use Decisions
    • Local, Regional and State Approvals
      • Comprehensive Plan
      • Regional Impact
      • Subdivisions
      • Rezonings: Zoning Changes or Amendments
      • Variances, Special Uses and Conditional Uses
    • The Permitting Process
      • State Building Code
      • Nonconforming Uses
      • Permits and Certificates
      • Environmental Review
    • Vested Rights
    • Estoppel
    • Moratoria
  • CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITATIONS ON ZONING ACTIONS
    10:30 - 11:45, Taudd A. Hume
    • Zoning as a Form of Governmental Power
    • Takings and Exactions
    • Due Process
    • Equal Protection
    • Property Rights and Police Power
  • CHALLENGING OR APPEALING AN ADMINISTRATIVE ZONING DECISION
    12:45 - 2:00, Professor Richard K. Eichstaedt
    • Procedural Requirements
    • Standing Issues
    • Trial of an Administrative Appeal
      • Strategies
      • Local Government Perspective
    • Judicial Review of Local Decision
    • Litigating a Zoning Case
      • Declaratory Action
      • Trial Strategies
      • Use of Experts
      • Local Government Perspective
      • Mandamus, Prohibition and Injunction
    • Federal Pre-emption
  • ADOPTION AND AMENDMENT OF ZONING ORDINANCE AND MAP
    2:00 - 3:15, Laura D. McAloon
    • Source of Zoning Authority
    • Zoning Procedures Law
    • Notice Issues
    • Hearing Issues
    • Standards
    • Local Issues and Impact Fees
  • ETHICS
    3:30 - 4:30, Diane J. Kiepe
    • Duties to Prospective Clients
    • Attorney Fees and Client Trust Accounts
    • Conflicts of Interest

 

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Summary

Practical Guide to Zoning and Land Use Law

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Who Should Attend

This basic-to-intermediate level course will assist the following in understanding and working with zoning and land use regulations:

  • Attorneys
  • City and urban planners
  • Developers

 
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