Ms. Reid told the story about recent sign litigation in Englewood, in which a business owner succeeded in a challenge to the City's discretionary sign approval process. Following Ms. Reid's presentation, Mr. Messenger provided an overview of the state of the law on sign controls and suggested techniques for reforming local sign regulations to accomplish community planning and aesthetic objectives while averting litigation.
Selected Publications
Community Character, Principles for Design and Planning
Lane H. Kendig with Bret C. Keast, Island Press, 2010
Too Big, Boring or Ugly: Planning and Design Tools to Combat Monotony, the Too-big House, and Teardowns
American Planning Association, PAS Report Number 528. December 2004.
“Traffic Sheds, Rural Highway Capacity, and Growth Management”
with Stephen Tocknell, American Planning Association, Planning Advisory Service, Report Number 485, March 1999.
“Computerized Zoning: The Future is Now”
with Brian Blaesser, Land Use Law and Zoning Digest, American Planning Association, April 1996. (Vol.48, No. 4)
“Tomorrow's Planning Tools Today ”
with Marc Mylott, Z Management Ideas, Zucker Systems’ Management Info Services, July 1995, (Issue 31).
“Stop the Insanity!”
Land Use Law and Zoning Digest, American Planning Association, January 1995, (Vol. 47, No.1).
“Pipe Dreams”
Planning, American Planning Association, June 1989.
“Performance Zoning for Sensitive Land in Queen Anne’s County, Maryland”
Urban Land, August 1988.
New Standards for Nonresidential Uses
American Planning Association, PAS Report Number 405, 1987.
“Why Consider Fishing in Urban-Suburban Planning”
Urban Fishing Symposium Proceedings, The American Fisheries Society, 1984.
“Performance Guaranties”
Land Use Law and Zoning Digest, February 1983, Vol. 35, No.2.
“Developers and Performance Zoning”
Urban Land, January 1982, (Vol. 41, No.1).
“Designer’s Notebook”
Nature Scape, September 1981, January 1982, May 1982.
Performance Zoning
Lane Kendig, et al. Planners Press, Chicago, Illinois,1980.
“Transfer Development Rights”
with Hershel Richman The Urban Lawyer, Summer 1977 Volume 9, Number 3.
Performance Zoning
Bucks County Planning Commission, 1973. Revised and reprinted, 1976.
Meeting Procedures and Liability Issues for Public Officials, Guide to Urban Planning in Texas Communities
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On Friday, June 25, 2010, Code Practice Leader Todd Messenger co-presented a session on sign controls at the Colorado Municipal League Annual Conference in Breckenridge, Colorado, along with Nancy Reid, Assistant City Attorney for the City of Englewood, Colorado. 
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