By Josefa Velasquez | July 28, 2017
In a letter issued July 14 to the county, HUD shifted its position from the one held during the Obama administration and declared that an analysis did not find exclusionary zoning to be an impediment to fair housing in the county.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | July 28, 2017
Trial court properly denied condemnees' preliminary objections to pipeline company's declaration of taking because the court had decided that company had a CPC, company was a public utility regulated by the PUC and was authorized to exercise eminent domain and condemnees' notice argument failed because notice was provided to the only party tasked with warranting and defending the alleged and unrecorded bridle path easement. Affirmed.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | July 28, 2017
In this case of first impression, the appellate court held that a developer's filing of a mandatory sketch plan created a vested right of consideration of the plan as well as any future related zoning applications under the ordinance in effect at the time the sketch plan was filed. The court affirmed a decision granting the developer's application for special exceptions.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | July 28, 2017
Zoning board erred in denying applicant's special exception application to construct 11 duplexes because applicant met the objective requirements for a special exception, the proposed duplexes were consistent with the purpose of the ordinance and objector's expressed fears were speculative at best. Reversed.
By Carla Vianna | July 27, 2017
Apartment developers are responding to a cry for reasonably priced housing by filling their towers with smaller units with permission from cities across South Florida.
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | July 27, 2017
An unfortunate kerfuffle has risen between those wanting to preserve prime agricultural land — some of it lying fallow in Connecticut's moribund farming economy — and another constituency also on the green side of things seeking more renewable energy through photovoltaics.
By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | July 26, 2017
City Granted Property Access to Put Up Scaffold In Prep of Adjoining Building's Demolition
By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | July 25, 2017
Court Declines to Substitute Own Judgment For Board, Denies Petitioner's Re-Zoning Petition
By Anthony S. Guardino | July 25, 2017
In his Zoning and Land Use Planning column, Anthony S. Guardino discusses how a decision by the New York Court of Appeals blocking construction of a project in Queens may reverberate across the state.
By Jason Grant | July 24, 2017
A controversial development plan that would adds hundreds of houses and condominiums on undeveloped land in Rockland County is bringing a state appeals court back to the bench in August.
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