Archive for March 8th, 2012
Massachusetts Land Court Construes Constructive Approval of Subdivision Clause Strictly and Finds Applicant Did Not Satisfy All Required Actions to Invoke Constructive Approval
Posted by: Patricia Salkin on March 8, 2012
LAW OF THE LAND
A blog on land use law and zoning
Contact the Author
- Click here.
For the Author’s Publications
Categories
- Access to Government (6)
- Accessory Uses (27)
- ADA (16)
- Adequate Public Facilities Ordinances (1)
- Adult Entertainment Facilities (88)
- Affordable Housing (53)
- Aging (1)
- Agricultural Uses (53)
- Airports (4)
- Alcohol Sales (4)
- Amending Zoning (15)
- Annexation (14)
- Architectural Review Board (2)
- Attorney Work Product (1)
- Authority (18)
- Authority to Zone (4)
- Big Box/Formula Retail (9)
- Book Reviews (11)
- Brownfields (1)
- Building Codes (5)
- Cemeteries (1)
- Climate Change (55)
- Collateral Estoppel (3)
- Comprehensive Plan (51)
- Condemnation/Eminent Domain (53)
- Conditions on Approval (13)
- Consent Decree (1)
- Conservation Easements (2)
- Constructive Approval (2)
- Contract Zoning (4)
- Current Caselaw (1588)
- Current Caselaw – New York (674)
- Declaratory Relief (7)
- Definitions (18)
- Density Bonus (1)
- Development Agreements (7)
- Discrimination (4)
- Docks (5)
- Dual Zone Parcel (1)
- Due Process (172)
- Easements (7)
- Educational Use (2)
- Endangered Species (3)
- Energy (6)
- Enforcement (83)
- Environmental Justice (19)
- Environmental Review (33)
- Equal Protection (107)
- Equitable Estoppel (11)
- Estoppel (3)
- Ethics (144)
- Exactions (16)
- Exclusionary Zoning (1)
- Exemption from Zoning (3)
- Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies (2)
- Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (2)
- Fair Housing Act Amendments (34)
- Family (8)
- Federal Preemption (3)
- Fees (3)
- Final Decisions (2)
- Financing (1)
- Findings (2)
- first amendment (18)
- Floating Zones (2)
- Flood Control (4)
- FOIL (2)
- Formula Retail (1)
- GIS (1)
- Growth Management (2)
- Highways and Roads (1)
- Historic Preservation (45)
- Home Occupations (16)
- Homeland Security (1)
- Hours of Operation (1)
- Immunity (10)
- Impact Fees (14)
- Incentive Zoning (1)
- Injunctive Relief (14)
- Intergovernmental Conflicts (3)
- Judicial Abstention (1)
- Junkyards (5)
- Jurisdiction (4)
- Laches (4)
- Legislative vs Adjudicatory (1)
- Lot Merger (7)
- Mandamus (10)
- Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling (4)
- Mediation (1)
- Medical Marijuana (25)
- Mining (27)
- Mobile Homes (14)
- moratoria (22)
- Necessary Parties (4)
- New Legislation (70)
- New York (7)
- Non-Conforming Uses (139)
- Notice (9)
- Notice of Decision (1)
- Nuisance (26)
- Open Meetings (28)
- Paper Streets (1)
- Performance Bond (3)
- Planned Development Districts (23)
- Players in the Land Use Game (2)
- Preemption (79)
- Prior Precedent (1)
- Procedural Issues (46)
- Property Rights (7)
- Records (6)
- Redevelopment (10)
- Referenda (27)
- Regional Planning (5)
- Religious Uses – Non-RLUIPA (26)
- Remedies (1)
- Res Judicata (6)
- Residency Restrictions (11)
- Restrictive Covenants (19)
- Retaliation (15)
- Retroactive Application (7)
- Rezoning (52)
- Ripeness (71)
- RLUIPA (144)
- Robert's Rule of Order (1)
- Rooker-Feldman Doctrine (1)
- Section 1983 Liability (24)
- Senior Housing (11)
- Setback Requirement (1)
- Signs (105)
- Site Plan Review (28)
- Smart Growth (13)
- solar energy (8)
- Special Facts Exception (1)
- Special Use/Exception (104)
- Spot Zoning (25)
- Standards of Review (13)
- Standing (122)
- Statewide Planning (1)
- Statute of Limitations (45)
- Straddled Parcels (3)
- Student Housing (2)
- Subdivision Regulation (79)
- Takings (164)
- Transfer of Development Rights (4)
- Uncategorized (65)
- Uniformity (2)
- Urbanism (1)
- Utilities (1)
- Vagueness (2)
- Variances (226)
- Vested Rights (58)
- Voting (8)
- Wind Development (50)
- Wireless Communications (97)
- Younger Abstention Doctrine (1)
- Zoning – Interpretation (87)
- Zoning Administration (16)
- Zoning Boards of Appeal (2)
- Zoning Map (5)
- Zoning-Adopting/Amending (13)
Archives
Blogroll
- Agricultural Law
- Climate Law Blog
- Community Benefits Agreements
- Endangered Species Act Law Blog
- Environmental Justice – EPA
- Environmental Justice Blog
- Envirosphere
- Florida Land Use Law
- Georgia Zoning Blog
- Gideon’s Trumpet
- Green Building Law Blog
- Green Building Law Update
- Green Law Blog
- Green Real Estate Law
- Hawaii Land Use Law
- IMLA Blog
- Impact Fees.com
- Inverse Condemnation
- Land Use Law Professor Blog
- Land Use, Environmental and Real Estate Law in California
- Massachussetts Land Use Monitor
- Midwest Planning BLUZ
- National Eminent Domain Blog
- New Jersey Condemnation Law
- New Jersey Land Use Law
- New York Legal Update
- New York Zoning and Municipal Law Blog
- NJ Eminent Domain Law
- North Carolina Legal Landscapes
- North Carolna Land Use Litigator
- NY Times City Room:Land Use Planning
- Open Space – Vermont Land Use Law & Policy
- Preservation Law Digest
- Property Professor Blog
- Rhode Island Property Law
- RLUIPA Defense
- Scenic America Blog
- SCOTUSblog
- Teaching Climate Change Law & Policy
- The Eminent Domain Law Blog
- The Florida Land Environment
- Tucson Land Use Law
- Vermont Environmental and Land Use Law Blog
- Warming Law
- Wind Power Law
Disclaimer
This blog is provided for general informational purposes only. It should not be construed as legal advice and is not intended to be a substitute for legal counsel. Persons requiring legal advice should retain a properly licensed lawyer. No attorney-client relationship will be formed based on use of this site and any comments or posts to this blog will not be privileged or confidential.
BLOG STATS
