Many communities across the country are showing new interest in using zoning regulation to better realize a desired building form. Zoning codes have always contained the basic bulk relationships that create the three-dimensional building envelope, such as minimum lot area, lot coverage restrictions,...
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...
A Primer on Right-of-Way
This OnDemand Webinar will provide comprehensive and useful information about rights of way, easements and issues related to their creation, use and liability. If you are a land surveyor responsible for determining property boundaries, an engineer involved in highway and roadway design, a governmental...
Achieving Clarity and Value From Nonprofit Financial Reporting, Ratio Analysis and Benchmarking
You will learn the strategies necessary and appropriate for improving financial reporting and ratio analysis. You will be able to develop an action plan for your organization to improve the clarity and substance of its financial reporting. Using ratio analysis, unit cost and benchmarking techniques,...
Air Rights in Development: Current Trends and Legal Concerns
A principal axiom of real estate law is cujus est solum ejus est usque ad coelum et ad inferos– “to whomsoever the soil belongs, he owns also to the sky and to the depths.” Traditionally, soil, sky and depths were conveyed as a single parcel, and parcels were separated by vertical boundaries. Today,...
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...
Board Governance
With increased scrutiny from legislators, the press and the public, it is imperative that tax-exempt organizations meet the best practices and requirements in terms of their organization and operation. Those involved with governing, guiding and counseling tax-exempt organizations need to be fully informed...
CERCLA Liability Update
Conventional wisdom (and EPA policy) has provided that any person shipping hazardous materials to a disposal facility will end up being jointly and severally liable, with all other entities shipping materials to the facility, for any costs of cleaning up contamination at the facility. Likewise, conventional...
Clean Air Act Update
U.S. businesses are facing unprecedented uncertainty as to future requirements under the Clean Air Act and an array of new programs addressing stationary and mobile emission sources. The Obama Administration and Congress are poised to usher in a new era of greenhouse gas and energy regulation. At the...
Climate Change and Federal Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rules
On October 30, 2009, EPA published the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule, which required approximately 10,000 facilities in a broad range of industrial and manufacturing sectors to begin monitoring and reporting greenhouse gas emissions. The rule is intended to inform EPA policy decisions, including possible...
