While the authority of municipalities to partake in land use decisions is a well-established concept, a question often arises concerning local legislative authority to adopt environmental laws. This article discusses some of the arguments advocating local environmental authority by highlighting the correlation between land use law and environmental law. Also discussed in this article, is the authority granted to local governments by the state legislature and court decisions to mitigate adverse environmental impacts
Local governments are adopting with increasing frequency local laws to facilitate low-impact develop...
Land use control in America has always been an intensely local area of the law. Modem land use law, ...
Although land use regulation at the federal, state, and local level are independent entities, integr...
While the authority of municipalities to partake in land use decisions is a well-established concept...
This Article explains the role that local governments have assumed in protecting the environment, ex...
The scope of environmental law extends beyond the federal statutes most people associate with protec...
People normally perceive environmental law to be a piecemeal of federal laws mostly concerned with t...
Local municipalities have broad authority to regulate land use as provided in state legislation. Lik...
As 2016’s national election made clear, striking ideological differences between cities and their su...
This Article is adapted from Chapter Three of John R. Nolon, Protecting the Environment Through Land...
This exploration of local preservation law and practice recognizes the critical influences of federa...
In this paper, Professor Philip Weinberg examines the relationships between local and state governme...
Challenges to the expansion of local initiatives aimed at local environmental protection question th...
This case analysis examines several court decisions, including the results of three New York Court o...
Local land use controls seek to limit the impact of one neighbor on another sometimes protecting nat...
Local governments are adopting with increasing frequency local laws to facilitate low-impact develop...
Land use control in America has always been an intensely local area of the law. Modem land use law, ...
Although land use regulation at the federal, state, and local level are independent entities, integr...
While the authority of municipalities to partake in land use decisions is a well-established concept...
This Article explains the role that local governments have assumed in protecting the environment, ex...
The scope of environmental law extends beyond the federal statutes most people associate with protec...
People normally perceive environmental law to be a piecemeal of federal laws mostly concerned with t...
Local municipalities have broad authority to regulate land use as provided in state legislation. Lik...
As 2016’s national election made clear, striking ideological differences between cities and their su...
This Article is adapted from Chapter Three of John R. Nolon, Protecting the Environment Through Land...
This exploration of local preservation law and practice recognizes the critical influences of federa...
In this paper, Professor Philip Weinberg examines the relationships between local and state governme...
Challenges to the expansion of local initiatives aimed at local environmental protection question th...
This case analysis examines several court decisions, including the results of three New York Court o...
Local land use controls seek to limit the impact of one neighbor on another sometimes protecting nat...
Local governments are adopting with increasing frequency local laws to facilitate low-impact develop...
Land use control in America has always been an intensely local area of the law. Modem land use law, ...
Although land use regulation at the federal, state, and local level are independent entities, integr...