Can Offensive Content on Signs Be Prohibited?
Calculating the Majority Vote Required for Variances and Development Regulation Amendments
What Conditions Can Be Included in Conditional Zoning?
2018 Survey Results Are In
Chapter 160D Effective Date
Plan Consistency Statements
Statutory Requirements for Plan Consistency Statements
What Does the Farm Exemption from Zoning Regulation Include?
Advisory Board Review of Quasi-judicial Decisions
Regulating Land Uses Not Specifically Mentioned in a Zoning Ordinance
Can the City Tell Me What My New House Has to Look Like? Residential Design Standards
The Origins of Chapter 160D: Proposed Reorganization and Modernization of Planning and Development Regulation Statutes
Meet the Granny Pod: Zoning Protection for Temporary Family Health Care Structures
Requirements for Quasi-Judicial Decision Documents
Stay What? Placing Development on Hold While Appeals Are Pending
Incorporation by Reference of Maps and Outside Materials in Local Development Regulations
Can a Property Owner Be Cited for a Zoning Violation by a Tenant?
Mandated Notices in Land Development Regulations
The Who, What, and When of Appeals TO the Board of Adjustment
Choosing the Right Development Review Process: Factors to Consider
Voting Calculations for a Zoning Variance
Do You Have to Swear to Tell the Truth to the Board of Adjustment?
The Zoning Protest Petition is No More: Super-Majority Provision Repealed
BOA/Quasi-Judicial Statute Updated
Rick’s Cafe Experiences Growing Pains
What Do You Mean I Can’t Start Up My Business Again?
Topping Off a Telecommunication Tower
How Much Repair is Too Much Repair?
Can the Board Go Into a Closed Session to Deliberate a Quasi-Judicial Decision?
Which City and County Ordinances Apply in the ETJ?
A Conditional What? Clarifying Some Confusing Zoning Terminology
School Impact Fees and Development Regulations: Another Round
When Can a Biased Elected Official Participate in a Zoning Decision?
Can We Consider Ownership in a Zoning Decision?
Can We Continue this Zoning Hearing?
Can Time Limits be Imposed on Speakers at a Zoning Hearing?
Can a Group Home be Zoned Out of the Neighborhood?
Land Use Regulation of Internet Sweepstakes Cafes
Does the County Have to Comply with City Zoning?
Can I Be Heard? Who Gets to Speak at a Hearing on a Quasi-judicial Matter?
Tolling Ends, But Permit Extension Law Leaves Many Approvals in Place
Can Offensive Commercial Signs Be Prohibited?
Is a Local Government Required to Approve an Amendment to a Previously Approved Project?
What If a Proposed Rezoning Is Inconsistent With Our Plan?
Is the Mayor Doing Her Job or Improperly Receiving Evidence?
Rezoning Conditions Done Right
Can We Add a Condition to this Rezoning?
Legally Binding Written “Determinations” from a Zoning Official
Can a City Really Zone Land Outside the City?
Advisory Letters from Zoning Officials Are Not Legally Binding
But I Already Bought the Lot and Had the Plans Made
Club-A-Gone-Gone? The Legal Effect of a Mistakenly Issued Permit
If We Can’t Collect a Fee, Can We Just Say No? Use of Impact Fees and Adequate Public Facility Regulatory Requirements
How Much is Too Much for That Application Fee?
Zoning Religious Land Uses
Can the Town Require This Religious Use to Get a Special Use Permit?
A Topless Bar in Our Fair Town?
Does Zoning Have to Provide a Place for Everything?
Singled Out. A Problem in Enforcement?
Can We Hit the Pause Button on Development Approvals?
Fixing an Error on a Zoning Map
Placing Conditions on a Special Use Permit
Do We Have to Hold Another Hearing on this Zoning Case?
Wouldn’t It Be Nice? Use of Development Agreements to Lock-in Project Details
Can the Opinions of Neighbors be Considered in a Zoning Hearing?
Contents of the Hearing Notice for a Zoning Amendment
New Life for Old Development Approvals