Developer-Buyer Beware: Calling Assumed Improvement Bonds In North Carolina Can Be Complex
In 2007, Developer Clarion-Reames, LLC (“Clarion”) sought to construct a residential housing development in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Old MacDonald Had a Farm. Wait, Maybe He Didn’t.
In March 2015, Katie and Chris Brewer bought 22 acres in Chapel Hill, Orange County – a rural, wooded spot – through an entity called Southeast Property Group, LLC. Among other things on their property, the Brewers intended to transplant an 1860s barn from upstate New York onto […]
The Long and Short of Interpreting Land Use Regulations
Introduction State law in North Carolina authorized modern local zoning regulations in the 1920s. And perhaps, there is no more basic zoning term than “single family detached dwelling.” In a world of ever-increasing complexity of uses and transitory land planning theories, we hope that a term as omnipresent […]
A Practical Primer on Zoning Law
When the North Carolina Court of Appeals decides not to publish an opinion, the opinion is not controlling precedent and citations to it in briefs, and arguments are disfavored. Nevertheless, unpublished opinions can be quite instructive. The North Carolina Court of Appeals’ unpublished opinion in the case of […]
N.C. Court of Appeals Dissent Asserts That Spot Zoning Does Not Require a "Single Owner"
Appellate court dissents are often overlooked by the public, viewed more intently by the litigants as bases for further appeal or other strategic maneuvering. But dissents are an important part of legal doctrine. In Good Neighbors of Oregon Hill Protecting Property Rights v. County of Rockingham, No. COA12-121 (July […]
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