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Want to Exercise Your 'Air Rights?' What's the Safe Word?

By Eric Lipman

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Who knew that, on my first day, I would be presented with the opportunity to, once and for all, dispel the myth that property and land use law is, by definition, imbued with Ambien-like, slumber-inducing characteristics? Professor Ngai Pindell, of the UNLV School of Law (apparently thriving in its 11th year of operation; what were the odds?), ran a brief post on the Land Use Prof Blog about a gentleman by the name of British "Lucky" Paul who so incensed his suburban Maryland neighbors that they felt they had no choice but to call in the big guns. Specifically, the Montgomery County Department of Permitting Services. What, you might ask, could "Lucky," né Paul Pickthorne, have possibly done to warrant such treatment at the hands of the residents of the bucolic-sounding Merrimack Park subdivision? He apparently violated a local zoning ordinance by turning the ?castle? that he is renting into a BDSM theme park, charging up to $50 admission for an evening spent on the business end of a cat o' nine tails wielded by a ?sexy girl in latex and high heels? (Paul's personal preference). Yes, when the gregarious bachelor around the block turns out to be a self-proclaimed...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on February 08, 2010 (boomark / email).