Blog Entries for Joel tagged 'Economics Planning'

A New World Order Not as Previously Imagined

joel.ellinwood@lawyer-planner.com — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 08:00:00 +0100

I once believed that carbon reduction and peak oil would be the defining issues of my generation, and that to be involved in land use was the opportunity and challenge of a lifetime. Instead I am now inclined to believe that the overleveraging of the American consumer debt economy, and its resultant exposure of our economic model as the emperor's new clothes of the capitalist economy of the west may be almost as big an issue, and one that will overshadow our economy and prospects for de [...]

SB 375 - Good start on the politics, but where's the money?

joel.ellinwood@lawyer-planner.com — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:00:00 +0100

In the article recently published in the California Real Property Journal, Vol. 26 No. 4, (January 2009) I explain the problem of governance that combating global warming through more efficient land use and development practices poses for California. The California Constitution directly establishes the police power of cities and counties, and state statutes enshrines the principle of local control for all land use, planning and zoning issues. The California Global Warming Solution [...]

AB 32 Scoping Plan Comments of a Land Use & Environmental Attorney without Portfolio

joel.ellinwood@lawyer-planner.com — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:00:00 +0100

To: California Air Resources Board

Subject: Comments on Scoping Plan - Regional Transportation Target

Submitted online on December 2, 2008

As a land use and environmental attorney I have followed the development of the Scoping Plan and the regional transportation target closely. I am not commenting on behalf of a client and I am not representing any particular interest group or organization. I am stating my own personal views and professional opinion.

SB 375 req [...]

Blaming the victim: the "sub-prime" loan mess is much more than bad mortgages

joel.ellinwood@lawyer-planner.com — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:00:00 +0100

Seven hundred billion dollars, the price tag for the congressionally-approved financial market bailout, is an awful lot of money. It's over $2,000.00 for every single man, woman and child living in the United States. Can there really be that much money loaned to people on their homes who can't pay it back? In fact, there isn't - not even close.

"Sub-prime" mortgages have become the media shorthand for the cause of the crisis. The blame ends up placed [...]

Why planners need market saavy

joel.ellinwood@lawyer-planner.com — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:00:00 +0100

[first published on the California Planning and Development Reporter on October 7, 2008 http://www.cp-dr.com/node/2152] by Joel Ellinwood, AICP

With news of yet another Wall Street icon or banking giant tumbling arriving on an almost daily basis, the Congress and Bush administration enacting a massive $700 billion bailout to prevent a complete meltdown (which probably is only the first installment), and the stock market gyrating wildly with each new shockwave, planners may wonder wh [...]