OnDemand Webinars

A Primer on Land Surveys

The land survey is a critical part of real estate practice. All parties involved need to be knowledgeable of the survey process so a proper survey can be assured instead of assumed. With this knowledge, a thoroughly researched, accurate and clear representation of the property can be achieved. Minor...

Accounting Endowments of Not-for-Profit Organizations After UPMIFA

In response to the enactment of the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act in most of the United States, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, in 2008, promulgated FASB Staff Position No. FAS 117-1. FSP FAS 117-1 provides guidance for nonprofits as to the proper classification of...

Alternative and Controversial Land Use Regulations

(Problem) Sometimes, we ask that zoning do more than it was intended to do, as when we force on zoning the job of business regulation. Whether a convicted felon should ever run a massage parlor or not is simply not a subject for zoning. Sometimes, local governments don’t live up to the expectations...

Best Practices in Budget Development and Analysis

In difficult fiscal times many budget officers and municipal managers begin the process by a rather simple approach: “Revenues are down 10%, we need to cut the budget by 10%”. Then they wait for the battles to begin, internally with department heads, externally with council members and other public...

Bikeway Design Principles, Planning, and Best Practices

Bicycling is gaining popularity in the United States as a recreational activity and a utilitarian mode of transportation. By expanding their bikeway networks, cities throughout the US have increased bicycle ridership and broadened the transportation options available in their community. However, significant...

Cell Tower Lease Buyouts

Offers to “buy out” cell tower leases for up to 50 years (and in some cases in perpetuity) pose unusual legal, financial, and technical risks that the property owner and its regular attorneys may not be aware of. This OnDemand Webinar will help guide property owners and their attorneys in identifying,...

Cell Tower Zoning: Overview and Current Issues

This OnDemand Webinar will describe the major elements and issues under the 1996 Federal cell tower zoning statute, including the FCC’s 2009 shot clock rule setting 90/150 day deadlines to act on zoning applications, the pending FCC Notice of Inquiry on cell tower zoning, the major federal zoning cases...

Closing Budget Gaps With Asset Sales

The lingering Great Recession and slow recovery have diminished the growth of state and local government revenues while expenses continue their increase causing structural budget gaps. A new source of revenue is the sale or conversion of government assets into revenues. These revenues may be one-time...

Coastal Development and Land Use Planning

This OnDemand Webinar will provide analysis of laws applicable to coastal development and land use planning. We will look at analytic materials; an analysis of a worst-case scenario, which includes combinations of all of the laws and all of the usual suspects engaged in permitting processes (including...

Control and Management of Birds

Birds constitute one of the most difficult types of animals to control. Control typically is expensive and can frequently encounter opposition from those opposed to the management of birds. This OnDemand Webinar will review the issues and conflicts humans have with birds, the methods and strategies...