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		<title>WA Appeals Court Holds Nonconforming Use Continues as Petitioner does not Satisfy Heavy Burden of Abandonment</title>
		<link>http://livabilitylaw.com/archives/4956</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Salkin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Land Use]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Non-Conforming Uses]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the 1950’s, the subject property in this action was considered a duplex, and due to zoning changes, was also a legal nonconforming use.  The petitioners in this matter, Rosema, sought an interpretation under the code, questioning whether the subject property’s nonconforming use status had lapsed as abandoned.  The City of Seattle’s Department of Planning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lawoftheland.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1446624&#38;post=6125&#38;subd=lawoftheland&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: Bradford Shellhammer</title>
		<link>http://livabilitylaw.com/archives/4953</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan S. Szenasy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[daily deals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dwell]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Entrepreneur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fab.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grey Line Map]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jason Goldberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lunda the fashion kitty]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Susan S. Szenasy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Target]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tory Burch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vintage]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Zach Posen]]></category>

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When I heard that Fab.com, a flourishing e-commerce site that recently reached the 2 million mark in membership and that this month, the site is introducing five new vertical shops, I wanted to get a peek behind the scenes. So I went to Bradford Shell...]]></description>
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		<title>MD Appeals Court Finds Board Violated Open Meetings Law with Partially Closed Site Visit and No Record</title>
		<link>http://livabilitylaw.com/archives/4952</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Salkin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Land Use]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law of the Land]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[entitlements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[land use law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Meetings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[property]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[real estate development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zoning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Board of County Commissioners of Charles County, after holding hearings and conducting a site visit to the subject property, granted a conditional special exception to WSG Holdings, allowing WSG to construct a research facility – a use not permissible in the zone district.  Municipal residents appealed this determination the Circuit Court for Charles County [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lawoftheland.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1446624&#38;post=6122&#38;subd=lawoftheland&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pier to Pier Networking</title>
		<link>http://livabilitylaw.com/archives/4948</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph G. Brin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Livable Communities Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metropolis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Applied Intelligence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Captain von Helium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carpenter Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Central Delaware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooper Robertson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ed Savaria]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michael Nutter]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Race Street Pier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rittenhouse Square]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Penn]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the air, a series of flat, gray, industrial looking waterfront piers jut out into the Delaware River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. “MetroZepp,” our aerial historic tour blimp, hovers as it suddenly detects the distinct emergence of Design. We...]]></description>
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		<title>MD Appeals Court Finds Distant Property Owners Alleging General Adverse Affects Lack Standing to Challenge PUD</title>
		<link>http://livabilitylaw.com/archives/4947</link>
		<comments>http://livabilitylaw.com/archives/4947#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Salkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Caselaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land Use]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law of the Land]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Standing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[entitlements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[land use law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[property]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This case is one of three challenging the decision of the City of Baltimore to create a Planned Unit Development in the area of north central Baltimore.  Previously, the Circuit Court for Baltimore City determined that the challengers, in this matter Ray and Coyne, lacked standing to bring the challenge, and they appealed from this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lawoftheland.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1446624&#38;post=6116&#38;subd=lawoftheland&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lab Report XXI</title>
		<link>http://livabilitylaw.com/archives/4941</link>
		<comments>http://livabilitylaw.com/archives/4941#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sherin Wing</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Suburbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Association Mwana Ukunda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[augment human ability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creative Media for Healing Teenage Orphans of Rwandan Genocide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gaming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Golden West Humanitarian Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lab Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laptop Game Project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M.I.N.D. Labs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Interface and Network Design Labs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[multidisciplinary]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[One Laptop per Child]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portugal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sherin Wing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[unexploded landmines or ordnances]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[World Landmine Avoidance Project]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone involved in design agrees that he or she wants to improve and enhance people’s lives. At M.I.N.D Labs or Media, Interface, and Network Design Labs, that goal becomes eminently clear. A consortium comprised of 11 university design labs includ...]]></description>
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		<title>NY Appellate Court Overturns Denial of Special Use Permit Application Finding Denial Was Impermissibly Based on Generalized Community Objections</title>
		<link>http://livabilitylaw.com/archives/4940</link>
		<comments>http://livabilitylaw.com/archives/4940#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Salkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Caselaw - New York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land Use]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law of the Land]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Special Use/Exception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Statute of Limitations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[entitlements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[land use law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[property]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[real estate development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zoning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Following denial of a special permit application, the trial court annulled the Board’s decision and the Town appealed.  The Town claimed that the petition should not have been heard by the Supreme Court because it was untimely filed more than 30 days after the determination.  However, the appellate court found the petition timely as it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lawoftheland.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1446624&#38;post=6113&#38;subd=lawoftheland&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Appeals Court Finds Takings Claim Not Ripe for Review</title>
		<link>http://livabilitylaw.com/archives/4939</link>
		<comments>http://livabilitylaw.com/archives/4939#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 05:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Salkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Caselaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land Use]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law of the Land]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[entitlements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[land use law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[property]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[real estate development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ripeness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Takings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zoning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Plaintiff is the owner of thirty seven acres of land originally zoned commercial. Interested in developing the land, Plaintiff retained a developer who submitted a proposal to build a condominium building on the property.  On the same day, the city rezoned an area of the city, including approximately thirty of plaintiff’s acres to residential/conservation.  Under [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lawoftheland.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1446624&#38;post=6104&#38;subd=lawoftheland&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NY Trial Court Finds Zoning Board Ignored its Affirmative Duty to Accommodate Religious Use</title>
		<link>http://livabilitylaw.com/archives/4938</link>
		<comments>http://livabilitylaw.com/archives/4938#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Salkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Caselaw - New York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land Use]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law of the Land]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[entitlements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[land use law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[property]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[real estate development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religious Uses - Non-RLUIPA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zoning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Emmanuel Brethren Assembly Church sought a variance to use their building to host church services.  The zoning laws requires this type of use to have at least twenty-five off street parking spaces and the property only had room for twelve.  After four hearings, the zoning board of appeals denied the church’s request.  The church [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lawoftheland.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1446624&#38;post=6106&#38;subd=lawoftheland&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Places that Work: Hirshhorn</title>
		<link>http://livabilitylaw.com/archives/4929</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sally Augustin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[1974]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Design with Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Bunshaft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hishhorn Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Mall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Place Advantage: Applied Psychology for Interior Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research Design Connections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sally Augustin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sculpture Garden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smithsonian Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington D.C.]]></category>

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The building that houses the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is an exquisite disc that enhances the National Mall in Washington, DC.  Affiliated with the Smithsonian Institute, the Hirshhorn is shaped like a perfectly round donut that rests on ...]]></description>
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