Public Interest, Private Property

Law and Planning Policy in Canada

Anneke Smit, Marcia Valiante (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

334 Seiten

2016
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-2932-8 (ISBN)

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Through selected case studies, this volume explores the complex interplay between the public interest and private property rights in Canadian urban-planning policy.

At a time when pollution, urban sprawl, and condo booms are leading municipal governments to adopt prescriptive laws and regulations, this book lays the groundwork for a more informed debate between those trying to preserve private property rights and those trying to assert public interests.

Rather than asking whether community interests should prevail over the rights of private property owners, Public Interest, Private Property delves into the heart of the argument to ask key questions. Under what conditions should public interests take precedence? And when they do, in what manner should they be limited?

Drawing on case studies from across Canada, the contributors examine the tensions surrounding expropriation, smart growth, tree bylaws, green development, and municipal water provision. They also explore frustrations arising from the perceived loss of procedural rights in urban-planning decision making, the absence of a clear definition of “public interest,” and the ambiguity surrounding the controls property owners have within a public-planning system.

Anneke Smit is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Windsor. Her research focuses primarily on questions of competing (public-private and private-private) rights in property and the law and lived experiences of forced displacement. She is the author of The Property Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: Beyond Restitution. Marcia Valiante is a professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Windsor. Her research covers a range of issues in Canadian and international environmental law and policy, with a particular focus on the Great Lakes and water law. Contributors: Deborah Curran, Pierre Filion, Jane Matthews Glenn, Harvey M. Jacobs, Anna Kramer, Eran S. Kaplinsky, Stanley M. Makuch, Ian Mathany, Stephen F. Waqué, Bruce Ziff

Introduction / Marcia Valiante and Anneke Smit

Part 1: Contextualizing Canadian Private Property and Public Planning

1 Private Property in Historical and Global Contexts and Its Lessons for Planning / Harvey M. Jacobs

2 Bumble Bees Cannot Fly, and Restrictive Covenants Cannot Run / Bruce Ziff

Part 2: Public Interest, Participation, and Planning Law

3 The Disappearance of Planning Law in Ontario / Stanley M. Makuch

4 In Search of the “Public Interest” in Ontario Planning Decisions / Marcia Valiante

Part 3: Recent Shifts in Canadian Urban Planning and Private Property

5 Transforming Toronto: Implementation and Impacts of Metropolitan-Scale Plans / Pierre Filion and Anna Kramer

6 Green Development: New Entanglements of Property, Planning, and the Public Interest / Deborah Curran

Part 4: Private Property, Natural Resources, and Planning

7 Private Tree Protection Bylaws: In the Public Interest? / Eran S. Kaplinsky

8 Planning for Potable Water: Public Interest and Property Rights / Jane Matthews Glenn

Part 5: Issues in Canadian Expropriation Law and Practice

9 Expropriation: The Raw Edge of the Conflict between Public and Private Interests / Stephen F. Waqué and Ian Mathany

10 Making Up for the Loss of “Home”: Compensation in Residential Property Expropriation / Anneke Smit

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Erscheinungsdatum	26.08.2016
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Sachenrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7748-2932-X / 077482932X
ISBN-13	978-0-7748-2932-8 / 9780774829328
Zustand	Neuware