Pretty soon they'll just replace everything with links to WalletHub.

More Bovino-led horror in Little Village today. Matt is a reliable leader in the community. www.linkedin.com/posts/matt-d...

Today's edition of early twentieth century anti-apartment fear mongering.

Came across this in report from 1915 and now plan to place "A Serious Presentation for Thoughtful People" on any future slides.

Next week in Cambridge, Mass, catch NZA geospatial analyst Jake Gilbert alongside MA housing heavy-hitters Amy Dain, @vincent-rollet.bsky.social, & @johninfranca.bsky.social for a wonderful conversation about the ins & outs of multi-family housing for better affordability

Decided to make my own professional website. Tell me if you think there is anything worth adding or changing: sites.google.com/view/profess...

Searching for buried treasure I suppose.

Legal academics: I am trying to decide whether it is worth the effort to develop and maintain a personal academic website. Questions: 1. do you have one?; 2. why do you think it valuable; 3. examples of sites you think are great; 4. services for creating/hosting/whatever you recommend?

Came across this article from 1948 defending zoning on Martha's Vineyard: vineyardgazette.com/news/1948/01... "The New Englander dislikes change almost more than he dislikes regulation. Therefore the fact that each community must make its own zoning laws, . . .

This is fantastic. @boston.gov can we get this?

As the history of January 6th is rewritten, a reminder of Republican Senator (then Congressman) Markwayne Mullin's account, the next day, of what occured: "Mullin said police 'showed a lot of restraint" and "did the best they could.'" www.foxnews.com/politics/cap...

Here’s What Happened When I Made My College Students Put Away Their Phones www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...

Why do sentences like this keep getting written @bostonglobe.com : "Developers and planners often argue that new supply will ease the housing crunch, but Lees isn’t convinced unit counts alone will solve the problem." The words "ease" & "solve" differ in meaning. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/20/r...

A good letter generally, but not sure about the line in paragraph 4: "The United States Constitution established that local governments . . . " The US Constitution says nothing about local governments. The authority local governments have regarding public safety is delegated by the states.

Pretty good summer Friday night.

The Proquest Historical Newspaper database is the greatest. Library of Congress has digitized papers but no way to effectively search them.

Working on an article that looks in part at the history of accounts of religious conversion by those facing execution. You don't see headlines like this one (at right) anymore.

Free Access to New Cambridge U Press Book: “The Future of Press Freedom: Democracy, Law, and the News in Changing Times” electionlawblog.org?p=151397

This is quite interesting, particularly the discussion at end of condo versus single-family appreciation. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/30/b...

Duolingo going all Lucille Bluth on me tonight.

A new Westlaw feature: Cases+! Real cases enhanced with the things you wish they said by cutting edge AI!

Charles Cheney, How Districts or Zones Help a City (1914) Dear California - thoughts on this 100+ years on?

I remain embroiled in a conflict with a third party that wanted to charge me 90 dollars for waiting in a car in an empty lot on a Sunday while getting bagels. They claim this sign, which we did not see and was not at main entrance, created a contract. Thoughts?

"I was good at zone changes." It's a typical word salad, but a nugget of truth: we're all a victim of regulation when it comes to zoning.

A new report by the National Zoning Atlas found that apartment buildings with four units or more can only be built, under current local zoning rules, on roughly 4 percent of the land in this state.

Thanks @bariboston.bsky.social Join us tomorrow, Friday, at noon at Suffolk Law for the formal launch. Information here: www.suffolk.edu/news-feature... and registration here: lnkd.in/ej5BYhJP

Andrew Brinker with a great story on the launch of the MA Zoning Atlas. Join us tomorrow at noon for the launch event. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/17/b...

In need of some summer reading? Here's a forthcoming review of three recent books on housing and land use law, by @sarabronin.bsky.social, James Burling of ‪ @pacificlegal.bsky.social and @jerusalem.bsky.social. Download at papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....; start of intro in thread.

🎊 Announcing the launch of the Massachusetts Zoning Atlas! 🎊 Join us *in person* this Friday, July 18 for the launch of the Massachusetts Zoning Atlas — the first resource to map & compare zoning across all 352 cities & towns in the Commonwealth. ✅ RSVP: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

A week from today. Join us for the launch of the Massachusetts Zoning Atlas www.wgbh.org/forum-networ...

Join us July 18th at Noon at Suffolk Law (120 Tremont) for the launch of Mass Zoning Atlas. @sarabronin.bsky.social will share the Atlas and key findings and we'll discuss implications for state and local housing policy. Register and explore the Atlas at: www.zoningatlas.org/massachusetts

Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, is a World Heritage site as an example of British colonial land use planning.

Join us on Friday, July 18 at Noon at 120 Tremont Street in Boston for the launch of the Massachusetts Zoning Atlas. Details below and RSVP link in thread.

A Massachusetts Superior Court Judge has ruled MBTA Communities is not an “unfunded mandate.” “The anticipated possible costs alleged by the Municipalities … are indirect and, therefore, Section 3A does not constitute an unfunded mandate.” - Superior Court Justice Gildea

My most recent article - Decoding Land Use Discretion - is out today in the Iowa Law Review. Thanks to their terrific editors for their work. The appendix, with information on zoning administration in the 26 largest cities by population is also here: ilr.law.uiowa.edu/volume-110-i...

Journal rejection letter of 1913 to lawyer and planner Frank Backus Williams:

Just realized the Bluebook abbreviation for both "housing" and "Houston" is "Hous."

This community meeting on a 12-unit development across my street at a gas station abandoned for over a decade is filled with NIMBY talking points. My favorite is the neighbor who continually expresses fear that a four-story building will lead to the "canyonization" of the street.

Alasdair MacIntyre — among the irreplaceable Catholic intellectuals of the past century — has died. In 2006, he wrote for Commonweal about the purpose of a Catholic education in a secular age. RIP. www.commonwealmagazine.org/end-education

Property Law exam from the 1890s my wife came across while doing some archival research. No long fact patterns. Some questions requiring defining of terms, some estate and future interests.

Last week I launched a discovery bot — @icymilaw.org — to help folks discover legal news on Bluesky, and wow. Today it really did its thing. If you're timeline is looking for an injection of thoughtful legal discourse without turning on a firehose, you should give it a follow.

Just posted to SSRN a draft essay - "Delineating Exclusionary Zoning" arguing the term "exclusionary zoning" lacks clarity and courts, but especially legislatures, would benefit from a clearer delineation of what it is and how it should be reformed.

Takings challenge, anyone? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/05/b...

I wrap up that hose. It's a real tripping hazard.

685 square feet; 1.2 million dollars. At least the HOA fee is reasonable. www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

As someone who has always hated all things Apple the core idea seems in no way appealing. www.yahoo.com/news/airbnb-...