Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District Decision is Good for Planning

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Written By H. Pike Oliver

In a post at Atlantic Cities, Emily Badger opines that the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court handed down on June 26, 2013, in the case of Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District, will be a disaster for good planning. Contrary to what Ms. Badger has to say I believe that this decision is no disaster for good planning. In fact it reinforces it. Plans and associated regulatory programs should be fair and based on sound analysis. The nexus and proportionality tests provide for that. Planners and regulators will simply have to do their homework. As long as they impose costs fairly and proportionately, they can require that property owners and developers fund the analytical work

H. Pike Oliver

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, H. Pike Oliver has worked on real estate development strategies and master-planned communities since the early 1970s, including nearly eight years at the Irvine Company. He resided in the City of Irvine for five years in the 1980s and nine years in the 1990s.

As the founder and sole proprietor of URBANEXUS, Oliver works on advancing equitable and sustainable real estate development and natural lands management. He is also an affiliate instructor at the Runstad Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington.

Early in his career, Oliver worked for public agencies, including the California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research where he was a principal contributor to An Urban Strategy for California. Prior to relocating to Seattle in 2013, Oliver taught real estate development at Cornell University and directed the undergraduate program in urban and regional studies. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the American Planning Association and a founder and emeritus member of the California Planning Roundtable.

Oliver is a graduate of the urban studies and planning program at San Francisco State University and earned a master’s degree in urban planning at UCLA.

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