ABSTRACT
Eco-industrial development, like all industrial development, involves legal issues (Frej et al. 2001; NCUED 1995). Typically, industrial uses stimulate more land use and environmental permits than do other human endeavours. Innovation in ‘waste’ management increases the number of legal issues. So too does the creation of legal relationships among industries or between industries and utilities. In conventional industrial parks, the codes, covenants and restrictions (CC&Rs) generate legal issues in their regulation of architecture and common-area maintenance. Some eco-industrial parks add the regulation of environmental and social sustainability to this mix. Although all business creates intellectual property issues, eco-industrial development creates new challenges because of its shared processes.
