Real Estate & Property Law

2007 Land Use in Review

By rht

Another year has come and gone.  In Hawaii, two of the hottest "land use" related topics in the public arena remain public beach access and transient vacation rentals.  Yet, there wasn't much to report in the way of developments in the law in these areas, as the courts did not address these issues directly in any decisions.   Nor were there any true "blockbuster" decisions from the U.S. or Hawaii Supreme Courts. No Kelo, no Lingle, no Rapanos.  But there was a fair amount of sorting out in the lower courts, and the lack of attention-grabbing cases certainly it doesn't mean that 2007 wasn't a very interesting year in land use law. 

Over the next several days, I'll post some of the highlights (or lowlights, depending on your point of view) in land use law and other topics covered on inversecondemnation.com in 2007.  Look for the category "2007 in review" linked on the right, or visit the summary page for links to the stories.

If you think I missed any key cases or events, please email me or add the topic yourself in a comment. 

Here's the 2006 summary.

Full post as published by inversecondemnation on December 31, 2007 (boomark / email).