Economic development and affordable housing opportunities present the highest stakes imaginable for elected officials because they forge the future of the community and identify what it will look like in the decades to come. However, future impacts cannot be known or guaranteed, which has the cruel tendency to magnify avoidable mistakes. Because time travel is…
Back to the Future: Taking Control of Your Township’s Destiny When Making Decisions Feels Like Time Travel
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Permit Conditions and Takings Challenges: Is Sheetz the new “Goldilocks” with the “Three Bears” of exactions – Nollan, Dolan, and Koontz?
In the children’s fairy tale “Goldilocks and the Three Bears,” a little girl enters the home of the three bears while they are away. She chooses from sets of three items ignoring some and settling on the one that is just right. She becomes complacent, falls asleep, forgetting about her trespass and is faced with…
