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Daily Business Review

Micro-Units: When Smaller Apartments Are a Bigger Draw

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.
6 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Solar Energy vs. Farmland Pits Green Against Green

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.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

The City of N.Y. v. 32-45 37th Str. LLC

City Granted Property Access to Put Up Scaffold In Prep of Adjoining Building's Demolition
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

O'Neill Group-Dutton, LLC v. Town Bd. of the Town of Poughkeepsie

Court Declines to Substitute Own Judgment For Board, Denies Petitioner's Re-Zoning Petition
1 minute read

New York Law Journal

'Public Trust' Ruling Puts a Brake on Development

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.
18 minute read

New York Law Journal

Bulk Appeals Prompt Second Department to Hold Summer Session

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.
7 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Our Message to the General Assembly: Do Not Override Governor's Affordable Housing Veto

Substitute House Bill 6880 is the product of raw politics and communities that are willing to lobby heavily to keep out people of even modest means and instead allow only expensive homes that pay more in taxes.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Zalman v. City of Chester, PICS Case No. 17-1123 (Pa. Commw. June 27, 2017) Colins, J. (20 pages).

Portion of street in use by railroad track was dedicated to the public use prior to implementation of 21-year statute of limitations, evidenced by charter granted by the commonwealth to a railroad corporation to construct the railway. Order of the trial court affirmed.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Smith v. Ivy Lee Real Estate, LLC, PICS Case No. 17-1113 (Pa. Commw. June 27, 2017) Hearthway, J. (13 pages).

The Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code provided private cause of action to enforce alleged violations of a township's SALDO. Order of the trial court reversed.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Dowds v. Zoning Bd. of Adjustment, PICS Case No. 17-1114 (Pa. Commw. June 27, 2017) Colins, J. (13 pages).

Pending ordinance doctrine did not apply to zoning application where examiner testified application was complete prior to favorable reporting of proposed zoning ordinance out of the city council, the point at which, under the city's zoning ordinance, the proposed ordinance was deemed "pending." Order of the trial court affirmed.
4 minute read

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