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AN INTERESTING DISPUTE involving a city's claimed right to foster revenue-producing development and a church's claimed right to build on land it owns without regard to the city's development plans [...]

The Washington Supreme Court has ruled state law and a county zoning code provided a basis to support a planning director's action for a wrongful discharge alleged to be in [...]

A fee imposed as a condition of permitting conversion of a residential hotel to a tourist hotel was not an unconstitutional taking of the hotel owners' property without just compensation, [...]

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled state regulations establishing 'cease-and-desist zones' where real estate agents are barred from soliciting listings from homeowners who do not wish to [...]

The Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled a township's zoning board of appeals could properly grant a use variance permitting a residential development on land zoned agricultural after initially denying [...]

MANAGING GROWTH by issuing variances (story, p. 122) would probably strike most planners as being inconsistent with modern notions of good planning. The strategy endorsed by the Michigan Court of [...]

A SPOONFUL OF HONEY ... Landowners seeking expansion of uses in congested areas could learn much from the approach Tudor Place took to its Washington, D.C., neighbors (story, p. 128). [...]

SO FAR, the Cottonwood Christian Center and its allies have managed to occupy the rhetorical high ground in the dispute between the church and the city of Cypress, Calif., over [...]