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

H. Pike Oliver focuses on master-planned communities. He is co-author of Transforming the Irvine Ranch: Joan Irvine, William Pereira, Ray Watson, and THE BIG PLAN, published by Routledge in 2022.

Early in his career, Pike 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. For the next three decades, he was involved in master-planned development on the Irvine Ranch in Southern California, as well as other properties in western North America and abroad.

Beginning in 2009, Pike taught real estate development at Cornell University and directed the undergraduate program in Urban and Regional Studies. He relocated to Seattle in 2013 and, from 2016 to 2020, served as a lecturer in the Runstad Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington, where he also served as its chair.

Pike graduated from San Francisco State University's urban studies and planning program and received a master's degree in urban planning from UCLA. He is a member of the American Planning Association and the Urban Land Institute and a founder and emeritus member of the California Planning Roundtable.

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