Ames
anti-"Animal House" housing ordinance legal, Iowa
Supreme Court says Courier - 28 Jul 2007
... AMES, IA - The city of Ames doesn't want a bunch of college
students running around in togas in an Animal House located
in quiet family neighborhood and is within its rights to enforce
a housing ordinance to keep it from happening, a narrowly
divided Iowa Supreme Court ruled on Friday.
The court said the city's ordinance banning
more than three unrelated people from living in a home in
certain residential zones is constitutional and may be enforced
...
The ordinance, passed in 2000, was designed
to stem the flow of Iowa State University students into residential
areas, creating what the court refers to as an "Animal
House" atmosphere in quiet family-populated neighborhoods
...
Judge
strikes down Glendridge housing bylaw
Standard - 27 May 2006
ST CATHERINES, ON - A municipal bylaw that brought new zoning
rules to the Glenridge area in an effort to keep student housing
in check has been ruled illegal.
Justice Joseph Quinn found the bylaw was
passed without a public meeting, as is required under the
planning act, and was “unfair” to building owners.
The Superior Court decision overturns a bylaw
St. Catharines city council passed in November limiting the
size of apartments in the area and creating higher standards
for parking and landscaping.
The ruling also renders all appeals of the
bylaw to the Ontario Municipal Board moot because there is
no longer a bylaw to appeal.
“I am profoundly disappointed in this
process,” said Carolyn Toth, past-president of the St.
Catharines Association of Concerned Citizens Inc. “I
am profoundly disappointed that they quashed the new bylaw
on a technicality...
Nuisance
party law is upheld on appeal Court links measure to public
safety, health
Blade - 10 Dec 2005
...BOWLING GREEN, OH - The 6th District Court of Appeals yesterday
upheld Bowling Green's right to cite hosts of parties whose
guests are engaging in illegal activities, saying the 1 1/2-year-old
nuisance party law was constitutional.
Student Legal Services Inc. at Bowling Green
State University challenged the law intended to quell loud
college parties, saying the ordinance violated students' rights
of due process and free assembly...
Court
Rules Against Cap The Hoya - 16 Jan 2004
...The D.C. Court of Appeals sided with Georgetown University
in a Dec. 4 ruling that invalidates several conditions of
the university’s 10-year plan, including Georgetown’s
enrollment cap.
The court ruled that the Board of Zoning
Adjustment lacked “substantial evidence” when
it rejected a proposed increase in enrollment of 389 students,
from the current enrollment cap of 5,267 to 6,016 during the
2001 campus plan negotiations..
Supreme
Court refuses GW case GW Hatchet - 9 Oct 2003
...The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear GW's case
against a city housing order prohibiting the University from
building nonresidential facilities. While the decision brings
an end to GW's three-year battle against the order in federal
court, University officials said they would continue to seek
the order's reversal in the D.C. Court of Appeals...GW now has
until August 2006 to meet the 70 percent mark and provide an
on-campus bed for every student that causes enrollment to exceed
8,000...
Zoning
ordinance upheld in Supreme Court ruling
Indianapolis Star - 24 Sep 2003
...Zoning laws that restrict the number of unrelated adults
who live together in the same home are constitutional, the Indiana
Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.A
landlord in Bloomington challenged the legality of the city's
zoning law, which prohibited more than four unrelated adults
from living together. Peter Dvorak was a landlord with five
tenants in his house.
In its unanimous decision, the Supreme
Court found that the ordinance does not violate the Indiana
Constitution's Privileges and Immunities Clause. The justices
explained that the ordinance passes the legal test because
people who are related can live together -- with no exceptions
-- so the privilege is equally available to anyone...
GW
wins short-term court victory: Appellate court affirms city's
right to limit University growth G W Hatchet - 15 Sep 2003
...A Thursday court ruling will give GW an additional four
years to comply with a city order that requires the University
to house 70 percent of undergraduates on campus. The order
also prevented GW from constructing nonresidential facilities
such as a new business school building.
The order initially required GW to house
70 percent of its undergraduate students - including all freshmen
and sophomores - within city-defined campus boundaries by
August 2002. The order also mandates that GW provide an on-campus
bed for every student after enrollment reaches 8,000. However,
the University now has until 2006 to meet the requirements,
the D.C. Court of Appeals ruled...
Court
Backs Plan to Limit GW University Housing in West End and Foggy
Bottom The West End Guide - Mar 2003 edition
...The BZA sided with neighborhood groups, and expressed concern
"about the continued vitality of the Foggy Bottom and West
End neighborhoods as pressures associated with university expansion
threaten their livability and stable residential character."
To stop the encroachment into nearby residential
neighborhoods, the BZA ordered in March 2001 that GWU’s
undergraduate enrollment be frozen and that all non-dormitory
construction be halted on campus until the university constructed
on-campus housing for 70 per cent of its students. GWU had
8,044 undergraduates at the time.
GWU appealed the order to the U.S. District
Court, arguing that the District’s conditions "would
seriously jeopardize the character, academic mission and future
of the university," and stated that the "BZA’s
irrational, discriminatory order violates both the constitutional
and federal statutory rights...
'Studentification': a guide to opportunities,
challenges and practice(released
Jan 2006) covers opportunities and challenges of housing growing
waves of students in off-campus neighborhoods.
Download a PDF copy of the report here.
Sustainable
Transportation Planning on College Campuses:This
is a summary of the following article:(Balsas, C. (2003) “Sustainable
Transportation Planning on College Campuses,” Transport
Policy, 10(1):35-49), which discusses transportation at campuses
in the US, with a particular emphasis on nonmotorized travel.
Strategic
Community Partnerships: Three colleges and a university,
deeply rooted in their respective communities, realize how closely
their own futures are linked to the well-being of their surrounding
regions.
Darren P. Smith Department of Geography, School
of the Environment, University of Brighton, Brighton, BN2
4GJ Tel: 01273 643318; Fax: 01273 642285 (D.Smith@Brighton.ac.uk)
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