The Montana Subdivision and Platting Act has been fraught with dissention since enactment in 1973. Because private property rights reign supreme with the Legislature, drafters of the Act knew that zoning as land use regulation on a county or state-wide level was an unrealistic vision. The Act was drafted as enabling legislation to encourage local governments to engage in predictable, cumulative planning with public participation. Instead, the Act was criticized and amended in nearly every Legislative session since enactment. An interim study group was formed in the 2005 Legislature to examine the confusion and inconsistencies caused by these modifications. This Capstone provides a complete history of the Act and provides the study group wit...
Viewed in this framework of the changing needs of land use controls, this article will endeavor to s...
This is volume 8, number 1 of Montana\u27s Agenda.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/montanas_agenda/1015/...
With increasing frequency commentators have been urging greater reliance on the market mechanism to ...
On January 21, 1997, Governor Engler signed into law 1996 P.A. 591, the Land Division Act. This Act...
Land use control in America has always been an intensely local area of the law. Modem land use law, ...
Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspap...
Zoning ordinances restrict the use of property in order to achieve and promote the goals of a city o...
Michigan seems to be unique in having three separate subdivision control statutes. The Plat Act of 1...
The year 1967 begins the second half-century of zoning in the United States. The first comprehensive...
Washington State\u27s Growth Management Act provides an effective means to guide growth but the stat...
It is a commonplace to note that with an ever-increasing birth rate and decreasing death rate, as we...
Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspap...
The Montana Supreme Court affirmed the Fourth Judicial District Court’s holding that Montana Code An...
Land-use zoning policies are vastly important to how society works, in that they determine what goes...
The purpose of this research project was to explore the history of Montana\u27s Environmental Policy...
Viewed in this framework of the changing needs of land use controls, this article will endeavor to s...
This is volume 8, number 1 of Montana\u27s Agenda.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/montanas_agenda/1015/...
With increasing frequency commentators have been urging greater reliance on the market mechanism to ...
On January 21, 1997, Governor Engler signed into law 1996 P.A. 591, the Land Division Act. This Act...
Land use control in America has always been an intensely local area of the law. Modem land use law, ...
Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspap...
Zoning ordinances restrict the use of property in order to achieve and promote the goals of a city o...
Michigan seems to be unique in having three separate subdivision control statutes. The Plat Act of 1...
The year 1967 begins the second half-century of zoning in the United States. The first comprehensive...
Washington State\u27s Growth Management Act provides an effective means to guide growth but the stat...
It is a commonplace to note that with an ever-increasing birth rate and decreasing death rate, as we...
Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspap...
The Montana Supreme Court affirmed the Fourth Judicial District Court’s holding that Montana Code An...
Land-use zoning policies are vastly important to how society works, in that they determine what goes...
The purpose of this research project was to explore the history of Montana\u27s Environmental Policy...
Viewed in this framework of the changing needs of land use controls, this article will endeavor to s...
This is volume 8, number 1 of Montana\u27s Agenda.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/montanas_agenda/1015/...
With increasing frequency commentators have been urging greater reliance on the market mechanism to ...