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New Jersey Law Journal

Virtual Land Use Board Hearings: A Recipe for Litigation?

The COVID-19 crisis is forcing land use boards to grapple with the requirements of holding public meetings at which the public cannot be physically present. While some boards will proceed down this route, the myriad of legal issues involved with virtual hearings should give developers pause.
10 minute read

Daily Business Review

Miami's Contentious Eastside Ridge Project Loses Lawsuit Trying to Force Vote

Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Abby Cynamon concluded a city board's delay in voting on the project isn't unreasonable.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

How 3 Years of Isolation Made Weiss Serota's Anthony Recio a Better Lawyer

Coral Gables attorney Anthony "Tony" Recio spent three years and five months at a Buddhist retreat, with no phone, internet or television.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth Court Update: Preliminary Opinions and Development Rights

The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court, the statewide intermediate appellate court that hears and decides land use appeals, took a temporary hiatus from issuing opinions while the Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic.
9 minute read

Daily Business Review

Piece by Piece, Developers Sell Pembroke Pines Industrial Complex for $108 Million

The three-part disposition of the South Florida Distribution Center included the $40.4 million sale of a second building.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Florida Looks to US Supreme Court in Water Dispute With Georgia

Special Master Paul Kelly has said that Florida has not adequately shown that Georgia's water use caused problems in the Apalachicola River and Apalachicola Bay.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Miami 21 Revisited. Adaptation Is Key to Miami's Future in Age of Coronavirus

At the time of its adoption, Miami 21 was heralded as the vision for Miami's ascent into a global city. And it was a big change in October 2009—as Miami became the first major U.S. city to adopt a citywide form-based zoning code.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Jurisdictional Consequences in Zoning Appeals in 'Friends of Lackawanna'

Locally unpopular land uses (not so affectionately known as LULUs) often have interesting and complicated histories. A proposed landfill expansion in Lackawanna County is one example.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Tension Between Site Remediation and Expeditious Estate Administration

When considering environmental liabilities in the context of an estate administration, property owners can take proactive steps to abate the risk, or at least make it more manageable for their heirs.
9 minute read

New York Law Journal

A Drastic But Recognized Zoning Remedy: Removing Unlawful Structures

It is a relatively rare occurrence, but courts are willing to grant the extraordinary relief of directing the removal of an existing structure as a remedy for violating zoning rules.
10 minute read

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