Property Rights

Local officials in Manasota Key, FL tried to preserve the character of their community by putting height restrictions in place, but a thwarted developer has been awarded $500k for the limitations these restrictions imposed on his property rights.

July 23, 2008 - Sarasota Herald-Tribune

With less than a month left before the start of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, residents in the Chinese metropolis are still being evicted to make way for event-related construction.

July 17, 2008 - The Washington Post via the Boston Globe

In what is almost a real-life caricature of the battle of the single homeowner against the huge corporation, Edith Macefield refused to sell her home to a developer planning a major retail outlet, who then built around. This week Ms. Macefield died.

June 19, 2008 - The Seattle Times

As a Texas beach erodes and the waves come closer to shore, homeowners are scrambling to figure out what to do when the public beach invades their private property.

June 19, 2008 - NPR

A case over land rights in the West going back decades has been awarded to the estate of a deceased property rights activist, who contended that the Forest Service deprived his ranch of water.

June 12, 2008 - Yahoo News

Oregon's property rights issues should serve as a cautionary tale for the rest of the country, according to this article from Metropolis.

March 26, 2008 - Metropolis Magazine

In recent decades conservation easements—promises to restrict land development—have become enormously popular, but now they are in trouble.

January 20, 2006 - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy