January 9 – Land Use – L1
The Year in Review

Speakers: Nancy Stroud, Peter Salsich, Dwight H. Merriam & Daniel R. Mandelker

While you were messing around last year, paying no attention to the most recent, important statutory and case law developments, our panel of national experts had their noses to their computer monitors and yanked every relevant Tweet off their smartphones. You can have the benefit of their collective knowledge by dialing in to this kickoff session of our annual land-use law teleconference series and getting the highlights of the past year in a way that will help you in 2017.

Speakers: Nancy Stroud, Peter Salsich, Jr, Dwight H. Merriam & Daniel R. Mandelker

Nancy E. Stroud, AICP, JD is of counsel to the law firm Lewis, Stroud & Deutsch, in Boca Raton, Florida. She focuses on planning and growth management law. Her practice involves her as special counsel to local governments throughout Florida on zoning issues, including consultation with planning staff, representation in quasi-judicial hearings and litigation. Ms. Stroud is a member of the American Planning Association Amicus Curiae Committee. She regularly lectures and publishes on land use topics for lawyers and planners, and is co-author of the LEXIS/NEXIS land use treatise Planning and Control of Land Development: Cases and Materials (most recent edition forthcoming in 2015).

Professor Emeritus Peter W. Salsich joined the Saint Louis University School of Law faculty in 1969. For more than 30 years, Salsich has devoted his scholarly work to exploring the relationship of land use laws to affordable housing and urban redevelopment. Professor Salsich is the former chair of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Commission on Homelessness and Poverty, former chair of the Ecumenical Housing Production Corporation (now Beyond Housing, Inc.) and former board president of LSEM. He is also a former editor of the ABA’s Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law. Professor Salsich is a co-author of casebooks in Housing Law, Land Use Regulation, Property Law and State and Local Government Law, as well as more than 30 articles.

Dwight H. Merriam founded Robinson & Cole’s Land Use Group in 1978. He represents land owners, developers, governments and individuals in land use matters. Dwight is a Fellow and Past President and of the American Institute of Certified Planners, a former Director of the American Planning Association, a former chair of APA’s Planning and Law Division, and a former chair of the American Bar Association’s national Section of State and Local Government Law. He teaches land use law at the University of Connecticut School of Law and at the Quinnipiac University Law School and has published over 200 articles and nine books and including Inclusionary Zoning Moves Downtown, The Takings Issue, The Complete Guide to Zoning, and Eminent Domain Use and Abuse: Kelo in Context. He is the co-editor of Rathkopf’s The Law of Zoning and Planning and a co-author of the leading casebook in the field, Planning and Control of Land Development.

Daniel R. Mandelker, Stamper Professor of Law, Washington University in Saint Louis, is a leading scholar and teacher in land use law, environmental law, and state and local government law. He was the principal consultant and contributor to the American Planning Association’s model planning and zoning legislation project. He was also the principal consultant to a joint American Bar Association committee that prepared a model law for land use procedures that was adopted by the ABA House of Delegates. He recently published a handbook on free speech law for on premise signs, a coauthored fourth edition of his APA report on Street Graphics and the Law, and a coauthored new edition of his law school casebook in State and Local Government. Additionally, he received the ABA’s State and Local Government Section Daniel J. Curtin Lifetime Achievement Award.