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Professor Kenneth Stahl\u2019s article \u201c
\nNeighborhood Empowerment and the Future of the City<\/a>
\n\u201d was published in the
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\n(Volume 161, No. 4, March 2013).<\/p>\n

Excerpt from the abstract:<\/p>\n

\"stahl-pennsylvania-law-review-cover-2\"\u201cIn any given metropolitan region, scores of municipalities are locked in a zero-sum struggle for mobile sources of jobs and tax revenue. This competition appears to benefit small, homogeneous suburbs that can directly enact the uniform will of the electorate over large, diverse cities that are often ensnarled in conflict between competing interest groups. Cities can level the playing field with suburbs, however, by devolving municipal power to smaller, more homogeneous subgroups, such as neighborhoods. Indeed, many commentators have identified one such effort at neighborhood empowerment, the \u201cbusiness improvement district\u201d (BID), as a key factor in the recent revitalization of many cities. The BID and the related \u201cspecial assessment district\u201d devolve the financing of infrastructure and services to landowners within a territorially designated area. Courts have widely upheld BIDs and special assessment districts against constitutional challenges\u2026This Article argues that the judicial prohibition on neighborhood zoning districts is inconsistent with the judiciary\u2019s permissive attitude toward BIDs and special assessment districts. As I demonstrate, the neighborhood zoning district is conceptually identical to the special assessment district\/BID. Both devices are designed to enable large, diverse cities to capture some of the governance advantages of small, homogeneous suburbs by providing landowners with the direct ability to manage local externalities. This Article attempts to make sense of the disparate treatment accorded these devices by examining several grounds upon which they could potentially be, and have been, distinguished. I find, however, that the only meaningful distinction between these mechanisms is that special assessment districts\/BIDs actually raise far more troubling public policy concerns than neighborhood zoning districts, thus calling into question why the judiciary has been so much more deferential toward the former than the latter. I conclude that courts should broadly defer to municipal delegations of power to sub-local groups, so that cities can work out their own strategies for surviving in an era of intense interlocal competition.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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View the full publication<\/a><\/p>\n

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Professor Kenneth Stahl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Professor Kenneth Stahl<\/a>
\nis the director of the Environmental, Land Use, and Real Estate Law certificate program at Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law. Before joining Chapman in 2008, Professor Stahl spent four years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of New York. Prior to that, he worked as a Trial Attorney for the United States Department of Justice, Office of Constitutional Torts, and as an Associate at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Arnold & Porter. Professor Stahl was named the 2008-2009 Professor of the Year at Fowler School of Law.<\/p>\n

See more of Professor Stahl\u2019s writings.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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