Don’t forget you can visit MyAlerts to manage your alerts at any time.
274 results for '* topic:"Land Use and Planning"' You can use Search Constraints to get even better search results
Publication Date: 2022-11-07
Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
Judge: Judge Hodge
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
for defendant:
Case Number: 10470 of 2021, C.A.
Plaintiffs' Declaratory Judgment Act complaint, which asserted that defendants were interfering with their use of an alley by calling police and seeking measures from the local township, alleged facts sufficient to indicate imminent and inevitable litigation as well as a direct, substantial and present interest. The court overruled in part defendants' preliminary objections.
Publication Date: 2022-10-24
Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
Industry: Mining and Resources | State and Local Government
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
Judge: Judge Hodge
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
for defendant:
Case Number: 70122 of 2021, MD
The court overturned the decision of a borough to deny a permit request for conditional non-coal surface mining finding the zoning board failed to meet their burden of proof to demonstrate that the permit sought was not consistent with the promotion of the public's health, safety, and public welfare.
Publication Date: 2022-10-10
Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Adams County
Judge: Judge Wagner
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
for defendant:
Case Number: 2022-SU-15
Court affirmed the decision of the town's zoning board finding that appellant property owner was in violation of multiple ordinances due to the condition of his properties. Although appellant argued the evidence presented at the hearing was illegally obtained by an officer who took photographs from the outside of the properties, the court noted that the evidence was lawfully obtained under the open fields doctrine.
Publication Date: 2022-09-26
Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
Industry: Non-Profit | Real Estate | State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Ceisler
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
for defendant:
Case Number: 1301 C.D. 2020
Municipality erred in granting development application seeking modification of township's Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance regulations governing steep slopes where it failed to require applicant to show that requested modification was the minimum deviation necessary. Order of the trial court reversed.
Publication Date: 2022-09-12
Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
Judge: Judge Butchart
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
for defendant:
Case Number: 22-0987
Court affirmed the court's order denying a motion to dismiss a matter due to mootness where a property subject to an Act 135 conservatorship request was demolished and vacated prior to the court's ruling on the matter. The court found that because Act 135 allowed conservatorships to proceed where property was vacant, the matter was not moot.
Law Journal Press | Digital Book
Authors:
View this BookView more book results for the query "*"
Publication Date: 2022-08-29
Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
Industry: Advertising | State and Local Government
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Wecht
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
for defendant:
Case Number: 22-0962
The lower courts did not err in finding that a Charlestown Township zoning ordinance was not unlawfully exclusionary as the restrictions complained of, i.e., those applying to billboards within the township and next to the state turnpike, arose from a state regulation establishing standards for outdoor billboards, not from the township's zoning ordinance. The high court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2022-08-17
Practice Area: Civil Rights | Land Use and Planning
Industry:
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Chief Judge Chagares
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
for defendant:
Case Number: 21-1786
Plaintiffs appealed from the district court's dismissal of their complaint with prejudice.
Publication Date: 2022-08-15
Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
Industry: Hospitality and Lodging | State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Leavitt
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
for defendant:
Case Number: 22- 0923
Trial court properly held hotel's height established the contextual height of developer's proposed building under §925.07D of the zoning code and trial court had subject matter jurisdiction over developer's assertion that it was entitled to a sustainability height bonus. Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2022-08-08
Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Wallace
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
for defendant:
Case Number: 22-0880
Common pleas court erred in reversing board's denial of plaintiff's application for conditional use approval to permit construction of road within Newtown township's slope conservation district because the proposed use was not an accessory use to a permitted primary use and did not qualify for conditional use approval. Reversed.
Publication Date: 2022-08-01
Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
Industry: Food and Beverage | Real Estate | State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Wallace
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
for defendant:
Case Number: 22-0865
Board erred in granting restaurant owner's requested variances because the proposed construction was permitted on a nonconforming lot and merely continued a single permitted by right principal use. Remanded.
Legal Speak is a weekly podcast that makes sense of what’s happening in the legal industry.
1 minute read