In his Zoning and Land Use Planning column, Anthony Guardino uses several New York court decisions to show that rezoning decisions which are carefully thought out and well-reasoned are unlikely to be ...

When a local government agency impermissibly “spot zones” a property, thereby depriving it of all economically beneficial uses, can the property owner seek to invalidate that zoning decision, or is ...

Albert J. Pirro Jr. writes that although challenges to spot zoning—zoning amendments which are not in accord with a comprehensive or well considered plan—are usually unsuccessful, some "outside the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Manchester Township Zoning Hearing Board last night ruled unanimously that the rezoning of land parcels next to historic ...