Last week I attended the 20th annual Rocky Mountain Land Land Use Institute conference at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. Nicola Villa with Cisco was the Keynote Speaker on Friday morning. Mr. Villa works with the Connected Urban Development (“CUD”) program across the world in cities like Amsterdam, San Francisco
In order to facilitate the settlement of the western United States in the nineteenth century, the federal government broke the land up into “townships” that were generally 36-square mile blocks. Each township was then broken into “sections” of roughly one square mile, or 640 acres. Each section was further divided into “quarter sections,” and further
Medical marijuana businesses, including grow operations and dispensaries, can now be found in many communities throughout Colorado. The establishment and proliferation of such businesses has presented a number of issues for their neighbors.
One issue: marijuana stinks. It has a very strong odor, even before it is smoked.
Odor emanating from medical marijuana businesses has
As discussed here by The Wall Street Journal, the vast majority of Generation Y, a larger demographic than baby boomers, wants an urban lifestyle. Of those born between 1980 and the early 2000’s, 88% want to live in an urban setting rather than in traditional, suburban communities. They want a pedestrian-friendly environment. They also prefer
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a constitutional challenge to the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), leaving intact a federal jury’s verdicts that Boulder County, Colorado had violated three separate provisions of the statute in its processing and denial of a 2004 special use application filed by Rocky Mountain Christian