Albert J. Pirro Jr. writes that although challenges to spot zoning—zoning amendments which are not in accord with a comprehensive or well considered plan—are usually unsuccessful, some "outside the ...

The owner of eight buildings on Professional Parkway is suing Mayor John Lombardi III and the Common Council, claiming that after a lengthy planning process identified a citywide need for housing, ...

DANBURY – Both sides in the city’s biggest land use debate agree that a custom-made zoning change is necessary for a developer to convert the former Crowne Plaza hotel into affordable studio ...

Over the past 15 years, Deschutes County has rezoned nearly 3,000 acres of farmland for luxury housing and industrial projects — more than any other Oregon county. In just the last three years, more ...

Citing concerns about “spot zoning,” the St. Paul Planning Commission has dealt a setback to a proposal to add more than 200 units of affordable, multi-family and artist housing at the Hamm’s Brewery ...

Zoning ordinance permitting oil and gas drilling throughout municipality did not constitute improper spot zoning nor violate Environmental Rights Amendment where municipality exercised authority to ...

Sausalito’s decision to repeal an affordable housing law to allow a hotel project amounts to “illegal and unconstitutional spot zoning,” a lawsuit alleges. The lawsuit aims to block a plan to convert ...

PEABODY — A proposed zoning change the city’s attorney called unlawful spot zoning has been withdrawn from the Peabody City Council’s consideration. The proposal was filed this winter by attorney Jack ...

Rotterdam officials did not engage in spot zoning when they approved developer Robert Iovinella’s request to change his property off Becker Drive from agricultural to general business uses, a ...