Faculty & Staff
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James C. Nicholas Professor Emeritus Former Associate Director, Environmental and Land Use Law Program 126 SW 165 Street Newberry, FL 32669 e-mail: jcnicholas@msn.com or nicholas@law.ufl.edu 352-472-4045 |
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Courses
- LAW 6460 - Land Use
Planning and Control (3 or 4 credits)
A study of the legal aspects of the allocation and development of land resources; private controls through covenants and easements; public regulation and control through zoning and subdivision regulation; social, economic and political implications of land regulations; eminent domain; selected current problems such as growth management, historic preservation, environmental regulations, and urban development.
Prerequisites: Property (LAW 5401). - LAW 6930 - Techniques
of Growth Management (2 credits)
This course will cover three of the more significant techniques of managing growth: development exactions, impact fees, and transferable development rights. The course will focus on the history of these techniques, their current use, and the case law that has evolved. Primary attention will be focused on the use of these techniques in Florida, but not to the exclusion of those of other states.
Prerequisites: None. - LAW 6930 - Growth Management
Seminar
Prerequisites: None. - URP 6312 - Land Development
Planning (3 credits)
Standards, criteria, policies, design techniques, and research systems used in designating proposed general distribution; location and extent of the uses of land and of population densities for all public and private land use categories as established by law, regulation, and social and economic justification at all levels of government in the U.S. and abroad.
Prerequisites: None. - URP 6542 - Urban Land
Economics (3 credits)
Review of land economics within the context of urban and regional planning.
Prerequisites: None. - URP 6543 - Seminar on
Capital Improvement Finance (1 credits)
Methods and means of local government finance of capital improvements.
Prerequisites: None.