All Articles tagged zoning law

• General
  May 13, 2014 EDT
  HYDROFRACKING AND HOME RULE: DEFENDING AND DEFINING AN ANTI-PREEMPTION CANON OF STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION IN NEW YORK
  Roderick M. Hills Jr.

  The regulation of hydraulic fracturing provides an ideal case study of whether municipal home rule can mitigate the costs of deep political disagreement.

• General
  May 08, 2009 EDT
  SHINING THE LIGHT ON GREYFIELDS: A WAL-MART CASE STUDY ON PREVENTING ABANDONMENT OF BIG BOX STORES THROUGH LAND USE REGULATIONS
  Betsy H. Sochar

  This paper addresses the growth of Wal-Mart and the impact the company has on other retailers and discusses the problems abandoned properties create for a community.