John Infranca
@johninfranca.bsky.social
Law professor | Property, land use, urban law & policy, law & religion, election law | Scholarship at http://ssrn.com/author=730171 & https://t.co/qs5Z62JpiK
Special relationship just got real awkward.
November 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Special relationship just got real awkward.
Today's edition of early twentieth century anti-apartment fear mongering.
October 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Today's edition of early twentieth century anti-apartment fear mongering.
Came across this in report from 1915 and now plan to place "A Serious Presentation for Thoughtful People" on any future slides.
October 18, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Came across this in report from 1915 and now plan to place "A Serious Presentation for Thoughtful People" on any future slides.
He also doesn't realize that you unbutton your jacket when you sit down.
September 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
He also doesn't realize that you unbutton your jacket when you sit down.
Searching for buried treasure I suppose.
September 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Searching for buried treasure I suppose.
Came across this article from 1948 defending zoning on Martha's Vineyard: vineyardgazette.com/news/1948/01...
"The New Englander dislikes change almost more than he dislikes regulation. Therefore the fact that each community must make its own zoning laws, . . .
"The New Englander dislikes change almost more than he dislikes regulation. Therefore the fact that each community must make its own zoning laws, . . .
September 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Came across this article from 1948 defending zoning on Martha's Vineyard: vineyardgazette.com/news/1948/01...
"The New Englander dislikes change almost more than he dislikes regulation. Therefore the fact that each community must make its own zoning laws, . . .
"The New Englander dislikes change almost more than he dislikes regulation. Therefore the fact that each community must make its own zoning laws, . . .
And the next day, his account on Good Morning America:
August 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
And the next day, his account on Good Morning America:
Pretty good summer Friday night.
August 8, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Pretty good summer Friday night.
Working on an article that looks in part at the history of accounts of religious conversion by those facing execution. You don't see headlines like this one (at right) anymore.
August 7, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Working on an article that looks in part at the history of accounts of religious conversion by those facing execution. You don't see headlines like this one (at right) anymore.
Duolingo going all Lucille Bluth on me tonight.
July 31, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Duolingo going all Lucille Bluth on me tonight.
How about old paintings? Although he seems to be nervously playing along.
July 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
How about old paintings? Although he seems to be nervously playing along.
Charles Cheney, How Districts or Zones Help a City (1914) Dear California - thoughts on this 100+ years on?
July 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Charles Cheney, How Districts or Zones Help a City (1914) Dear California - thoughts on this 100+ years on?
I remain embroiled in a conflict with a third party that wanted to charge me 90 dollars for waiting in a car in an empty lot on a Sunday while getting bagels. They claim this sign, which we did not see and was not at main entrance, created a contract. Thoughts?
July 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I remain embroiled in a conflict with a third party that wanted to charge me 90 dollars for waiting in a car in an empty lot on a Sunday while getting bagels. They claim this sign, which we did not see and was not at main entrance, created a contract. Thoughts?
In need of some summer reading? Here's a forthcoming review of three recent books on housing and land use law, by @sarabronin.bsky.social, James Burling of @pacificlegal.bsky.social and @jerusalem.bsky.social.
Download at papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....; start of intro in thread.
Download at papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....; start of intro in thread.
July 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
In need of some summer reading? Here's a forthcoming review of three recent books on housing and land use law, by @sarabronin.bsky.social, James Burling of @pacificlegal.bsky.social and @jerusalem.bsky.social.
Download at papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....; start of intro in thread.
Download at papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....; start of intro in thread.
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, is a World Heritage site as an example of British colonial land use planning.
July 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, is a World Heritage site as an example of British colonial land use planning.
Join us on Friday, July 18 at Noon at 120 Tremont Street in Boston for the launch of the Massachusetts Zoning Atlas. Details below and RSVP link in thread.
July 5, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Join us on Friday, July 18 at Noon at 120 Tremont Street in Boston for the launch of the Massachusetts Zoning Atlas. Details below and RSVP link in thread.
My most recent article - Decoding Land Use Discretion - is out today in the Iowa Law Review. Thanks to their terrific editors for their work. The appendix, with information on zoning administration in the 26 largest cities by population is also here: ilr.law.uiowa.edu/volume-110-i...
May 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
My most recent article - Decoding Land Use Discretion - is out today in the Iowa Law Review. Thanks to their terrific editors for their work. The appendix, with information on zoning administration in the 26 largest cities by population is also here: ilr.law.uiowa.edu/volume-110-i...
Not sure this note is related, but seems there was just too much written already on German zoning and building regulation.
May 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Not sure this note is related, but seems there was just too much written already on German zoning and building regulation.
Journal rejection letter of 1913 to lawyer and planner Frank Backus Williams:
May 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Journal rejection letter of 1913 to lawyer and planner Frank Backus Williams:
This community meeting on a 12-unit development across my street at a gas station abandoned for over a decade is filled with NIMBY talking points. My favorite is the neighbor who continually expresses fear that a four-story building will lead to the "canyonization" of the street.
May 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This community meeting on a 12-unit development across my street at a gas station abandoned for over a decade is filled with NIMBY talking points. My favorite is the neighbor who continually expresses fear that a four-story building will lead to the "canyonization" of the street.
Property Law exam from the 1890s my wife came across while doing some archival research. No long fact patterns. Some questions requiring defining of terms, some estate and future interests.
May 22, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Property Law exam from the 1890s my wife came across while doing some archival research. No long fact patterns. Some questions requiring defining of terms, some estate and future interests.