Stephen R. Miller

University of Idaho College of Law - Boise

Professor of Law | Associate Dean for Faculty Development

514 W. Jefferson St

Boise, ID 83702

United States

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1.

First Principles for Regulating the Sharing Economy

53 Harvard Journal on Legislation 147 (2016)
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 22 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2016
Stephen R. Miller
University of Idaho College of Law - Boise
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sharing economy, Airbnb, San Francisco, Portland, Uber, collaborative economy, collaborative consumption, the mesh, access-based consumption, local government, land use, zoning, neighborhoods,

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Transferable Sharing Rights: A Theoretical Model for Regulating Airbnb and the Short-Term Rental Market

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 24 Oct 2014
Stephen R. Miller
University of Idaho College of Law - Boise
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sharing economy, TSRs, TDRs, property, tourism, land use

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A Response to the IPCC Fifth Assessment

Environmental Law Reporter, Vol. 45, No. 1, 2015, Albany Law School Research Paper No. 9 for 2015-2016, Touro Law Center Legal Studies Research Paper Series No. 15-42
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 06 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 24 May 2016
Sarah Adams-Schoen, Deepa Badrinarayana, Cinnamon Piñon Carlarne, Robin Kundis Craig, John C. Dernbach, Keith H. Hirokawa, Alexandra B. Klass, Katrina Fischer Kuh, Stephen R. Miller, Jessica Owley, Shannon Roesler, Jonathan D. Rosenbloom, Inara Scott and David Takacs
University of Oregon School of Law, Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law, Ohio State University (OSU) - Michael E. Moritz College of Law, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, Widener University - Commonwealth Law School, Albany Law School, University of Minnesota Law School, Pace Law School, University of Idaho College of Law - Boise, University of Miami - School of Law, Oklahoma City University - School of Law, Drake University Law School, Oregon State University, College of Business and University of California Hastings College of the Law
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Rethinking Sustainability to Meet the Climate Change Challenge

43 Environmental Law Reporter 10342-10357, SUNY Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-023, Hofstra Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-05, Lewis & Clark Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-1, University of Utah College of Law Research Paper No. 22, Roger Williams Univ. Legal Studies Paper No. 153
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 16 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 18 Aug 2014
Michael Burger, Elizabeth Burleson, Rebecca M. Bratspies, Robin Kundis Craig, Alexandra R. Harrington, Keith H. Hirokawa, Sarah Krakoff, Katrina Fischer Kuh, Stephen R. Miller, Jessica Owley, Patrick A. Parenteau, Melissa Powers, Shannon Roesler and Jonathan D. Rosenbloom
Columbia University - Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, BurlesonInstitute.org, City University of New York - School of Law, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, Albany Law School, Albany Law School, University of Colorado Law School, Pace Law School, University of Idaho College of Law - Boise, University of Miami - School of Law, Vermont Law School, Lewis & Clark Law School, Oklahoma City University - School of Law and Drake University Law School
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sustainability, climate change, adaptation, resiliency

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Planning for Wildfire in the Wildland-Urban Interface: A Resource Guide for Idaho Communities

Number of pages: 167 Posted: 29 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2017
Stephen R. Miller, Thomas Wuerzer, Jaap Vos, Eric Lindquist, Molly Mowery, Tyre Holfeltz, Brian Stephens and Alexander Grad
University of Idaho College of Law - Boise, Nova Southeastern University - H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business & Entrepreneurship, University of Idaho, Boise State University, Wild Fire Planning International, Idaho Department of Lands, University of Idaho, College of Law, Students and University of Idaho, College of Law, Students
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wildfire, CWPP, community wildfire protection plan, wildland-urban interface, WUI, Firewise, Cohesive Strategy,

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Agritourism at the Rural-Urban Interface: A National Overview of Legal Issues with 20 Proposals for Idaho

Number of pages: 184 Posted: 11 May 2014 Last Revised: 20 May 2014
Stephen R. Miller
University of Idaho College of Law - Boise
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agritourism, agriculture, land use, economic development, local government

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Area of City Impact Agreements

Number of pages: 871 Posted: 15 Jan 2013
Stephen R. Miller
University of Idaho College of Law - Boise
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land use, area of city impact, growth management, state and local government law, extra-territorial, counties, cities, Idaho, smart growth, sustainability

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Decentralized, Disruptive, and On Demand: Opportunities for Local Government in the Sharing Economy

77 Ohio State Law Journal Furthermore 47 (2016)
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 11 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2016
Stephen R. Miller
University of Idaho College of Law - Boise
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sharing economy, redistribution, Airbnb, Uber, short term rentals, transportation network companies, local government

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Field Notes from Starting a Law School Clinic

20 Clinical Law Review 137 (2013)
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 07 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 03 Dec 2013
Stephen R. Miller
University of Idaho College of Law - Boise
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clinical, clinic, community economic development, economic development, community and economic development, legal education, legal pedagogy

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AirBNB and the Battle between Internet Exceptionalism and Local Control of Land Use

31(3) ABA Probate & Property (May/June 2017) 36
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 08 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2017
Stephen R. Miller and Jamila Jefferson-Jones
University of Idaho College of Law - Boise and University of Missouri at Kansas City - School of Law
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Airbnb, sharing economy, collaborative consumption, gig economy, platform, VRBO, HomeAway, CDA230, CDA 230, Communications Decency Act, Section 230, internet exceptionalism

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Community Land Trusts: Why Now is the Time to Integrate this Housing Activists’ Tool into Local Government Affordable Housing Policies

36(9) Zoning & Planning Law Report 1 (2013); reprinted in 23 A.B.A. Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 1 (2015)
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 26 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2017
Stephen R. Miller
University of Idaho College of Law - Boise
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affordable housing; land use; community land trusts; affordable housing land trusts; Chicago; Irvine; CLTs; housing

12.

Legal Neighborhoods

37 Harvard Environmental Law Review 105 (2013)
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 29 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 14 Jun 2013
Stephen R. Miller
University of Idaho College of Law - Boise
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local government, environmental, neighborhoods, Tiebout, zoning, neighborhood courts, neighborhood schools, climate change, community benefits agreements, neighborhood design

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Sustainable Cities of Tomorrow: A Land Use Response to Climate Change

In Rethinking Sustainable Development to Meet the Climate Change Challenge (Jessica Owley & Keith Hirokawa eds.) Environmental Law Institute (2014)
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 16 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2015
Stephen R. Miller
University of Idaho College of Law - Boise
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land use, cities, climate change, resiliency, socio-ecological, infrastructure, VMT, GHG, greenhouse gas, vehicle miles traveled, heat island effect, green building, population, migration

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Transmission and Transport of Energy in the Western U.S. and Canada: A Law and Policy Road Map

52 Idaho Law Review 387 (2016), U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-22
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 09 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2016
K.K. DuVivier, Nate Larsen, Nick Lawton, Sam Kalen, Stephen R. Miller, Melissa Powers, Tara Kathleen Righetti, Troy A. Rule and Amelia Schlusser
University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Lewis & Clark College, Lewis & Clark College, University of Wyoming College of Law, University of Idaho College of Law - Boise, Lewis & Clark Law School, University of Wyoming College of Law, Arizona State University (ASU) - Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law and Lewis & Clark College
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energy; wind; solar; coal; fracking; hydraulic fracturing; flaring; Bakken; utilities; rooftop solar; Clean Power Plan; Clean Power Rule; renewables

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The Visual and the Law of Cities

Pace Law Review, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2013
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 20 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 25 Feb 2013
Stephen R. Miller
University of Idaho College of Law - Boise
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land use, visual, Edward Casey, Henri Lefebvre, Edward Hopper, legal geography, form-based zoning codes, disenos, aesthetics, law and literature

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Funding Conservation in Idaho: A Survey of Federal, State & Local Resources Assisting Conservation on Private Lands

Number of pages: 107 Posted: 23 Jun 2015
Stephen R. Miller
University of Idaho College of Law - Boise
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conservation, easement, agriculture, ranching, open space, land use

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Commercial Green Leasing in the Era of Climate Change: Balancing Risks, Burdens, and Incentives

Environmental Law Reporter, Vol. 40, p. 10487, 2010
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 29 Jul 2010
Stephen R. Miller
University of Idaho College of Law - Boise
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green building, green leasing, sustainability, greenhouse gas, GHG, leasing

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A Coordinated Approach to Food Safety and Land Use Law at the Urban Fringe

41 American Journal of Law and Medicine 422 (2015)
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 11 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2017
Stephen R. Miller
University of Idaho College of Law - Boise
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food safety, food, land use, cottage food, cottage farm, food sovereignty, food freedom, agritourism, economic development, rural, Food Safety Modernization Act, Tester Amendment, zoning, building codes

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Percent-for-Art Programs at Public Art's Frontier

Zoning and Planning Law Report , Vol. 35, No. 5, May 2012
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 18 Jul 2012
Stephen R. Miller
University of Idaho College of Law - Boise
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public art, zoning, land use, fees

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Urban Data and the Platform City

Nestor Davidson, Michèle Finck and John Infranca, Cambridge Handbook on Law and Regulation of the Sharing Economy (Cambridge University Press 2018)
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 10 May 2018
Stephen R. Miller
University of Idaho College of Law - Boise
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urban data, sharing economy, artificial intelligence, big data, AI, platform

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Planning for Wildfire in the Wildland-Urban Interface

59 The Advocate (Idaho) 42 (2016)
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 29 Jun 2016
Stephen R. Miller, Eric Lindquist, Jaap Vos, Thomas Wuerzer, Molly Mowery, Alexander Grad and Brian Stephens
University of Idaho College of Law - Boise, Boise State University, University of Idaho, Nova Southeastern University - H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business & Entrepreneurship, Wild Fire Planning International, University of Idaho, College of Law, Students and University of Idaho, College of Law, Students
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wildfire, CWPPs, WUI, wildland-urban interface, community wildfire protection plan, Firewise

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Three Legal Approaches to Rural Economic Development

Kansas Journal of Law & Pubic Policy, Vol. 23, No. 3, 2014
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 06 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2014
Stephen R. Miller
University of Idaho College of Law - Boise
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land use planning, land use, economic development, rural, agriculture, zoning, comprehensive plans, economic development planning

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Environment, Energy, and Resources Law: The Year in Review 2012, Constitutional Law Report

The Year in Review 2012, ABA Section on the Environment, Energy and Resources, Chicago, IL, Roger Williams Univ. Legal Studies Paper No. 137
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 23 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 03 Oct 2015
Michael Burger, Helen H. Kang, Itzchak E. Kornfeld, Susan Kraham, Amanda C. Leiter, Mark McGuire, Stephen R. Miller, Justin R. Pidot and Kalyani Robbins
Columbia University - Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Golden Gate University School of Law - Environmental Law and Justice Clinic, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law, Columbia University - Environmental Law Clinic, American University Washington College of Law, Narragansett Bay Commission, University of Idaho College of Law - Boise, University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law and Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Hydraulic Fracturing and the Emergent Dormant Commerce Clause

ABA SEER Constitutional Law Committee Newsletter, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2013
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 12 Feb 2013
Stephen R. Miller
University of Idaho College of Law - Boise
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hydraulic fracturing, fracking, dormant Commerce Clause

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Community Rights and the Municipal Police Power

55 Santa Clara Law Review 675 (2015)
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 03 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2015
Stephen R. Miller
University of Idaho College of Law - Boise
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police power, local government, property, community rights, liberty

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Environment, Energy, and Resources Law: The Year in Review 2011, Constitutional Law Report

Environment, Energy, and Resources Law: The Year in Review 2011, Constitutional Law Report, Roger Williams Univ. Legal Studies Paper No. 119
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 17 May 2012 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2015
Michael Burger, Helen H. Kang, Itzchak E. Kornfeld, Amanda C. Leiter, Stephen R. Miller, Jessica Owley, Kalyani Robbins and Jim Wedeking
Columbia University - Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Golden Gate University School of Law - Environmental Law and Justice Clinic, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law, American University Washington College of Law, University of Idaho College of Law - Boise, University of Miami - School of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law and Sidley Austin LLP
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Symposium Introduction: Resilient Cities: Environment | Economy | Equity

Idaho Law Review, Vol. 50, No. 3, 2014
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 27 Jun 2014
Stephen R. Miller
University of Idaho College of Law - Boise
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land use, resiliency, cities, resilient, resilient cities, municipal finance, adaptive law, economic development, interstate governmental agreements, civity, urban land ethic, socio-ecological, right to destroy, city resilience index, New York City, Sandy, disaster

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Enforcement of Local Green Building Ordinances Integrating Third-Party Rating Systems

California Real Property Journal, Vol. 27, No. 2, 2009
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 01 May 2010
Stephen R. Miller
University of Idaho College of Law - Boise
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green building, LEED, Build It Green, sustainability, local government

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Boundaries of Nature and the American City

Environmental Law and Contrasting Ideas of Nature: A Constructivist Approach (Keith Hirokawa ed.) Cambridge University Press, 2013
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 06 Aug 2013
Stephen R. Miller
University of Idaho College of Law - Boise
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Financing Local Food Factories

43 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1 (2016)
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 05 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2017
Stephen R. Miller
University of Idaho College of Law - Boise
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land use,urban agriculture, vertical farm, population, agriculture, economic development

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Environment, Energy, and Resources Law: The Year in Review 2013: Constitutional Law Report

The Year in Review 2013, ABA Section on Environment, Energy and Resources, Chicago, IL, 2014, Roger Williams Univ. Legal Studies Paper No. 149
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 10 May 2014
Michael Burger, Sidney Ansbacher, Marcia Cleveland, Gary Edinger, Helen H. Kang, Mark McGuire, Stephen R. Miller and Justin R. Pidot
Columbia University - Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Independent, Marcia J. Cleveland, LLC, Benjamin, Aaronson, Edinger & Patanzo, P.A., Golden Gate University School of Law - Environmental Law and Justice Clinic, Narragansett Bay Commission, University of Idaho College of Law - Boise and University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law
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Local Environmental Regulation in the Mountain West

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 11 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2018
Stephen R. Miller, Barbara Green, Edward Thomas and J. Lawrence Frank
University of Idaho College of Law - Boise, Sullivan Green Seavy, LLC., Independent and Atkins Global
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Historic Signs, Compelled Speech, and the Limits of Preservation

Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2010
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 12 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2011
Stephen R. Miller
University of Idaho College of Law - Boise
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historic preservation, commercial speech

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Administrative Law for Idaho Local Governments

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 25 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2012
Stephen R. Miller
University of Idaho College of Law - Boise
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Idaho, administrative law, local government law

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The Local Official and Climate Change

Contemporary Issues in Climate Change Law and Policy: Essays Inspired by the IPCC (Robin Craig & Stephen R. Miller eds., Environmental Law Institute) (2016)
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 03 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2017
Stephen R. Miller
University of Idaho College of Law - Boise
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land use, climate change, local government, IPCC, International Panel on Climate Change

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Planning for Wildfire in the Wildland-Urban Interface: A Guide for Western Communities

49 Urban Lawyer 207 (2017)
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 24 Jul 2017
Stephen R. Miller
University of Idaho College of Law - Boise
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wildfire, CWPP, WUI, wildland-urban interface, wildland urban interface

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Informal Governance and Disaster Planning: The Case of Wildfire

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 21 Dec 2018
Stephen R. Miller, Jaap Vos and Eric Lindquist
University of Idaho College of Law - Boise, University of Idaho and Boise State University
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Contemporary Issues in Teaching Land Use

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 18 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2017
John R. Nolon, Patricia Salkin, Stephen R. Miller and Jonathan D. Rosenbloom
Pace University School of Law, Touro College - Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, University of Idaho College of Law - Boise and Drake University Law School
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Land Use, Sustainability, RLUIPA, Zoning, Nuisance, Pedagogy, Comprehensive Plan, General Plan, Variance, Subdivision, Nonconforming, Takings, Exactions, Impact Fees, Signs, Billboards, Local Environmental Law, Climate Change