The vote was justified based on the city's zoning and land use laws.

Straub's tenure as governor saw the state's energy and land use laws strengthened.

But because the site is Federal property, the Postal Service may not have to comply with city land use laws.

Many land use laws aim to reduce CO emissions by limiting deforestation.

The legislation is deceptive, in that it coerces governments into altering land use laws without debating them on their merits.

Oregon land use laws require that a jurisdiction adjust its boundaries every five years to accommodate a 20-year land use supply.

The state's land use laws had prevented rural hillsides from being turned into housing tracts, preserving a significant amount of land suitable for vineyards.

He collaborated closely with a community group known as Friends of Bull Mountain who have advocated changes to Oregon land use laws.

To adopt a general plan and create land use laws establishing and amending the city's development plans and zoning regulations and processes.

Some issues that they lobby for are increasing transportation funds to towns, changing laws relating to annexation and boundaries, reforming land use laws.

Arguably, RLUIPA gives religious landowners a special right to challenge land use laws which their secular neighbors do not have.

The article also noted that the land use laws that protect farmland across the state work to a farmer's disadvantage if farmers cannot find a way to compete profitably.

A handful of court cases in New Jersey and across the country have focused on local land use laws that can make it difficult for religious congregations to build new homes.

Zoning in the United States includes various land use laws falling under the police power rights of State governments and local governments to exercise authority over privately owned real property.

I am also a fervent supporter of property rights - farmers should not be subjected to harmful land use laws that devalue their property and make it more difficult to do business.

In many jurisdictions, land use laws require that severances of land occur in an orderly fashion by way of plans of subdivision, especially when multiple lots are being created.

"The Audubon Society ought to be pushing for better land use laws, restricting the growth of strip malls and McMansions, reducing the use of pesticides," Ms. Bowman said.

Consistent with this, local zoning laws, fair share and land use laws cannot be legally used to block housing for people with psychiatric disabilities; these local laws are overridden by the Federal law.

Susan Bass Levin, commissioner of the state Department of Community Affairs, said the bills would augment some separate measures already proposed in the state Legislature, intended to amend municipal land use laws.

Despite some consolidation and the introduction of some big-box retailers, the Japanese food-processing industry remains fragmented and inefficient because Japanese grocery stores are still mostly tiny mom-and-pop shops protected by strict land use laws.

Interest in city transportation planning began in the early 1970s after the state of Oregon passed comprehensive state land use laws with the city of Portland drafting its first 'Bicycle Master Plan' in 1973.

It was unclear whether Mr. Spano has such power, though, since the federal commission, protecting the larger public interest, generally does not have to abide by local or state land use laws in deciding a route for interstate pipelines.

While Oregon's lack of a sales tax is an asset, the state's land use laws make it hard for the city to grow a property tax base and match the pace of development seen across the state line in Idaho.

Specifically, the project will include reforestation, the creation of green spaces and protected areas, teh "urbanization of slums", housing for resettled people, water quality monitoring, environmental education, the preparation of land use laws as well as "studies on metropolitan governance".

In addition to the power of eminent domain outside the District, the one other power that the District was given (that it would not have had if it were simply the two cities) was an exemption to state zoning and land use laws.