Planning

Rathkopf’s The Law of Zoning and Planning Database

This is a database related to interests in and transfers of real estate, in the following material: General Treatises, Forms, and Practice Guides. A description of this real estate database is provided below:

Full text of Rathkopf’s The Law of Zoning and Planning, Fourth Edition, which provides detailed coverage of zoning and planning case law concerning issues such as constitutional and statutory limitations on government zoning and planning powers, remedies for wrongful land use regulation, rezoning, and subdivision restrictions. The treatise also discusses tort actions and governmental immunities, providing extensive footnotes with state-specific references, and examines evolving issues such as floodplain and wetlands regulation, growth management, regulation of hazardous wastes, historic preservation laws, variances, building permits, housing laws, restrictions on manufactured housing, private covenants, regulation of adult entertainment businesses, and regulation of religious land use.

Further information on United States legal research databases, including real property databases, are provided following the former link.

Finding the law: Planning in the U.S. Code

A collection of general and permanent laws relating to planning, passed by the United States Congress, are organized by subject matter arrangements in the United States Code (U.S.C.; this label examines planning topics), to make them easy to use (usually, organized by legal areas into Titles, Chapters and Sections). The platform provides introductory material to the U.S. Code, and cross references to case law. View the U.S. Code’s table of contents here.

Planning

In Legislation

Planning in the U.S. Code: Title 16, Chapter 36, Subchapter I

The current, permanent, in-force federal laws regulating planning are compiled in the United States Code under Title 16, Chapter 36, Subchapter I. It constitutes “prima facie” evidence of statutes relating to Conservation (including planning) of the United States. The reader can further narrow his/her legal research of the general topic (in this case, Forest of the US Code, including planning) by chapter and subchapter.