Government,
Constitutional Law
Apr. 30, 2020
Sprawl vs density
It used to be a standing joke in the land use community that the only thing that land use planners hated more than sprawl was density. Or did they hate density more than sprawl? No matter; you get the picture.
Michael M. Berger
Senior Counsel
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP
2049 Century Park East
Los Angeles , CA 90067
Phone: (310) 312-4185
Fax: (310) 996-6968
Email: mmberger@manatt.com
USC Law School
Michael M. Berger is senior counsel at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP, where he is co-chair of the Appellate Practice Group. He has argued four takings cases in the U.S. Supreme Court.
It used to be a standing joke in the land use community that the only thing that land use planners hated more than sprawl was density. Or did they hate density more than sprawl? No matter; you get the picture. There was a severe split of opinion. In any event, battles raged for years over the benefits and detriments of the sprawled out development pattern in the Los Angeles metropolitan area vs. the more densely packed (and extremely high rise) New ...
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