Land Use & Planning

  • New York Law Journal

    Realty Law Digest

    By Scott Mollen | November 1, 2022

    In this week's Realty Law Digest column, Scott Mollen discusses "Matter of Barnes Rd. Area Neighborhood Assn. v. Planning Bd. of the Town of Sand Lake," where it was held that the court could not use its own judgment to overrule the determination by the town's planning board, and "Gunsalus v. County Of Ontario," where a home's sale at foreclosure was set aside because it was determined to be not a transfer for a reasonably equivalent value.

    16 minute read

  • New York Law Journal

    Realty Law Digest

    By Scott Mollen | October 25, 2022

    This week in his Realty Law Digest column, Scott Mollen discusses "Haimovici v. Castle Vil. Owners Corp.," a lease termination action where records of the tenant's misconduct precluded a preliminary injunction, and "Application of Voice of Gowanus v. City of New York," where a challenge to Gowanus rezoning was dismissed due to a failure to show that the environmental review was capricious.

    16 minute read

  • New York Law Journal

    Supreme Court Weighs Wetlands Protection; New York State's Wetlands Valuation

    By Michael Rikon | October 24, 2022

    The Supreme Court, in 'Sackett v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency', will decide on whether the Ninth Circuit set forth the proper test for determining whether wetlands are "waters of the United States" under the Clean Water Act.

    8 minute read

  • Daily Business Review

    Creative Solutions to South Florida's Affordable Housing Crisis

    By Raychel Lean | October 21, 2022

    "Everybody says, 'We need affordable housing, we need affordable housing,' but they never really go into the details of this fact," one affordable housing developer said. "We're all human beings. There's a need and you can't just leave people out without a place to live."

    11 minute read

  • Daily Business Review

    What About Broward? This Less-Popular County Holds Development Opportunities, But Miami-Dade and Palm Beach Have the Spotlight

    By Melea VanOstrand | October 20, 2022

    Despite being the least-popular pick, real estate experts say Broward has many opportunities for growth and development. The question is: can it leverage its unique strengths to its advantage?

    6 minute read

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    Commonwealth Court Finds Proposed Sale of Unused Park Land Violates the DDPA

    By Robert Max Junker and Anna Skipper Jewart | October 20, 2022

    Recently, in the case of In re Township of Jackson, 280 A.3d 1074 (Pa. Cmwlth, 2022), the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court revisited several seminal cases interpreting the DDPA to consider whether the orphan's court had properly denied the petition of Jackson Township, Lebanon County, to sell a parcel donated to the township for use as a public park.

    8 minute read

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    Jury Returns $5.85M Verdict to Family in 12-Year Eminent Domain Dispute

    By Aleeza Furman | October 13, 2022

    The verdict matched the exact value the plaintiff presented the jury, and the full award is set to amount to around $7.5 million with statutory interest tacked on, according to David Snyder, a partner at Fox Rothschild who represented the plaintiffs.

    3 minute read

  • Daily Business Review

    Increased Competition Is Causing Attorneys to Implement 'Creative Strategies' in Transactional Work

    By Melea VanOstrand | September 21, 2022

    "An attorney can add value to a transaction by making introductions, thereby bringing more resources to the table for a client. The idea is to be the bridge between the parties and potentially end up representing the entity involved in the new transaction."

    5 minute read

  • Daily Report Online

    Climate Change Is Generating New Legal and Insurance Issues

    By Raychel Lean | September 20, 2022

    "I think we're going to find ourselves with quite a bit of litigation over the next 10 to 30 years because of property owners alleging that another property owner has adversely affected the usability of their property, or potentially that their view or vista has been impeded because of infrastructure."

    6 minute read

  • New York Law Journal

    Realty Law Digest

    By Scott Mollen | September 20, 2022

    Scott Mollen discusses the land use case "South St. Seaport Coalition v. City of New York," where the court denied a petition challenging development in a historic district.

    18 minute read

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