This article is intended to provide a practical lens into how Home Rule issues unfold in complex matters involving the City, and to suggest how a much-needed Home Rule constitutional amendment could re-shape or, at the very least, clarify Home Rule standards. Section II will provide some historical and legal background on Home Rule; Section III will analyze some of the more well-known Home Rule cases that the Law Department litigated during the Bloomberg Administration; and Section IV will discuss insights gleaned with respect to, and will offer several recommendations for, the future of Home Rule in New York
As the price of housing continues to rise in the New York metropolitan area, municipalities have beg...
A shortage of workforce housing, especially in the New York metropolitan area where real estate pric...
It is well established that zoning regulations which operate in an exclusionary capacity are unconst...
At this point, four years into the new century, most readers must be tired of the invocation of the ...
This article is part of the special issue: District of Columbia: The State of Controvers
Article IX of New York State’s constitution establishes the basic constitutional framework for addre...
This article reviews the position of the New York courts on the obligation of local governments to z...
This Article explains and defends the National League of Cities’ Principles of Home Rule for the 21s...
The conventional wisdom is that New York\u27s failure to adopt a comprehensive state-wide land use s...
This Article will examine the effect of municipal home rule on the doctrines that have developed to ...
This article will focus on the judiciary reforms and access to justice—starting with reforms to the ...
This article begins by briefly reviewing the recent historical development of home rule. Next, it ex...
The National League of Cities’ “Principles of Home Rule for the Twenty-First Century” updates the Am...
This article examines the rise of new forms of state preemption of local government legal authority ...
Efforts by municipalities to promote affordable housing have proven to be insufficient as evidenced ...
As the price of housing continues to rise in the New York metropolitan area, municipalities have beg...
A shortage of workforce housing, especially in the New York metropolitan area where real estate pric...
It is well established that zoning regulations which operate in an exclusionary capacity are unconst...
At this point, four years into the new century, most readers must be tired of the invocation of the ...
This article is part of the special issue: District of Columbia: The State of Controvers
Article IX of New York State’s constitution establishes the basic constitutional framework for addre...
This article reviews the position of the New York courts on the obligation of local governments to z...
This Article explains and defends the National League of Cities’ Principles of Home Rule for the 21s...
The conventional wisdom is that New York\u27s failure to adopt a comprehensive state-wide land use s...
This Article will examine the effect of municipal home rule on the doctrines that have developed to ...
This article will focus on the judiciary reforms and access to justice—starting with reforms to the ...
This article begins by briefly reviewing the recent historical development of home rule. Next, it ex...
The National League of Cities’ “Principles of Home Rule for the Twenty-First Century” updates the Am...
This article examines the rise of new forms of state preemption of local government legal authority ...
Efforts by municipalities to promote affordable housing have proven to be insufficient as evidenced ...
As the price of housing continues to rise in the New York metropolitan area, municipalities have beg...
A shortage of workforce housing, especially in the New York metropolitan area where real estate pric...
It is well established that zoning regulations which operate in an exclusionary capacity are unconst...