On August 15, 2025, Ontario’s Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing (the “Minister”) announced the approval of several Official Plan Amendments, with modifications, to increase density and height limits in certain Major...more
The Housing Crisis Act of 2019, which enacted Government Code section 66300, generally precludes a city from reducing the intensity of land use on a parcel where housing is allowed below what was allowed on January 1, 2018. ...more
On March 6, 2020, just a day after hearing oral argument, the Supreme Judicial Court reaffirmed the longstanding principle that abutting landowners have standing to challenge the application of zoning bylaws only if they...more