This article suggests that the Michigan legislature should amend the Michigan Zoning Enabling Act in order to explicitly allow state and local government to amortize nonconforming property uses under limited circumstances. While the current prohibition on amortization protects individual rights and is thus...
While the current prohibition on amortization protects individual rights and is thus laudable as a liberty-friendly law, it goes too far by categorically refusing to give any account for the public interest.A revised statute allowing amortization, but only when the government satisfies a substantial ...
In addition, this position requires National Mortgage Licensing System and Registry (NMLS) registration under the SAFE Act of 2008. As such, upon active employment with JPMorgan Chase, you will be required to either register on NMLS, or to update your existing registration as necessary to grant...
Regulation of short-term rentals. Short-term rentals are part of Michigan’s housing ecosystem and a generations-long tradition. Any regulation of short-term rentals at the state level should start with amending the Zoning Enabling Act to protect a ...
Food’s place on the urban, municipal agenda has become an increasing focus in the emergent fields of food policy and food planning, whose leaders argue that food needs to be more explicitly added to the urban agenda. Yet, public food markets are a food system activity that municipal governme...
Given the global significance of groundwater, considerable attention is being paid to the need for sustainable management of this resource, including managed aquifer recharge [8], integrated management planning [9], and a greater emphasis on conservation [10]. Given the ubiquity and visibility of ...
sustainability Article Markets in Municipal Code: The Case of Michigan Cities Amanda Maria Edmonds 1,2,3,* and Gerrit J. Carsjens 1 1 Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning Group, Wageningen University & Research, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands; gerrit-jan.carsjens@wur.nl 2 AM ...