On The Commons with us this week is Steven Siegel. Steve is a lawyer and a doctoral student at Columbia Law School. He wrote an article titled: “The Public Role in Establishing Private Residential Communities: Towards a New Formulation of Local Government Land Use Policies that Eliminates the Legal Requirements to Privatize New Communities in the United States” that was published in the Fall 2006 edition of The Urban Lawyer. Please join us On The Commons. We’ll talk about the ramifications of these trends and find out what he means by Public Service Exaction.