Charlie Gardner: How property law shapes community - Episode #7 Yeoman

Charlie on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/OldUrbanist



Charlie's bio at Mercatus:

https://www.mercatus.org/scholars/charles-gardner



Some court decisions referenced in our conversation:



Euclid v. Ambler, 1926

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/272/365/



Spann v. City of Dallas, 1921

https://casetext.com/case/spann-v-city-of-dallas-1



Buck v. Bell, 1927

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/274/200/



Kelo v. City of New London, 2005

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/545/469/



Wilson v. Shaw, 1907

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/204/24/



Other things worth noting, in the order that they came up:



Ilya Somin discusses the constitutional case against exclusionary zoning on Yeoman #4:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Mh7i33XU2NCLcb5n8uVeq?si=3860a9cb143347a3



Brett McKay and author Louis Menand discuss the philosophy of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and his contemporaries on the Art of Manliness podcast:

https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/knowledge-of-men/podcast-752-the-metaphysical-club/



Charlie referenced "Town and Country Planning" in the UK:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_and_country_planning_in_the_United_Kingdom



"Fee tail"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fee_tail



The fee tail as featured in Downton Abbey:

https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1432&context=wlulr&httpsredir=1&referer=



Arbitrary Lines, Nolan Gray

https://islandpress.org/books/arbitrary-lines#desc



Land Use without Zoning, by Bernard Siegan

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538148631/Land-Use-without-Zoning-New-Edition



"Right to Roam: In Scotland, Hikers Can Go Anywhere", by Ken Ilgunas (I mispronounced Ken's last name in the podcast; my apologies, Ken!)

https://www.backpacker.com/stories/issues/scotland-right-to-roam/



It's worth noting that I probably overstated existing right-to-roam protections in Pennsylvania.



"Landowner will close access to two Colorado 14ers after lawmakers rejected legislation limiting liability"

https://coloradosun.com/2023/03/03/landowner-closing-14ers-mount-lincoln-democrat/



Other great resources on zoning reform and housing:

https://twitter.com/ebwhamilton

https://twitter.com/salimfurth



"Cutting Zoning Down to Size: Reevaluating the Legal Vulnerability of Urban Minimum Lot Sizes", by Charlie (currently in draft, full version will be published in May):

⁠https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4619301⁠