Any stock brokerage website will tell you that “past performance is not indicative of future results.” The same is true in the context of land use permitting, such that what a municipality “had done” cannot ripen a claim to prevent against what a municipality “might do.”
A new law took effect in North Carolina on October 1, 2016, and it affects the need for building permits. Session Law 2016-113, entitled An Act to Provide Further Relief to the Agricultural Community, clarifies in Section 13 that a building permit is not required for certain work […]
Our regular readers will know that this blog is as much about land use, specifically, as it is about local government powers, generally, and the direct and indirect impacts on land use. Voters in two California cities — San Francisco and Berkeley — will go to the polls […]
North Carolina is an alcoholic beverage control state, meaning it is one of 17 states with a monopoly over the retailing of distilled spirits. North Carolina is also a “local option” state, which means that county and municipal voters decide whether distilled spirits shall be sold within the […]
Today, we’re looking to land use issues decided in the recent past by the federal courts. Specifically, we’re looking to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which encompasses North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland. I think the reasons for our particular […]
Aaron Frank
Amy C. O'Neal
John Cooke
Michael Thelen
WBD Admin
North Carolina Land Use Litigator 