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Allen Matkins

Challenging the Industrial Exodus: Legal Lessons from Santa Ana’s Planning Reboot

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The City of Santa Ana (City) has recently undertaken an ambitious — and highly controversial — effort to reshape the landscape of its historically industrial-centric Transit Zoning Code (TZC) district. Through the adoption of...more

Snell & Wilmer

Arizona Supreme Court to Address the Scope of Citizens’ Rights to Propose Local Ballot Measures

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In the forthcoming case of Roundtree v. City of Page,2 the Arizona Supreme Court will weigh in on a reoccurring political issue that bubbles up in cities and towns across the state: under what circumstances does a proposed...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Suffolk County Trap And Skeet Range May Be Silenced By Town Noise Ordinance

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BANG! Yaphank, New York.  In November 2019, after years of protracted ligation, Hunter Sports Shooting Grounds, Inc., (“HSSG”) the operator of the Suffolk County Skeet, Trap & Sporting Clays Range (“Range”), was dealt another...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

10th Circuit Holds Colorado’s Urban Renewal Statute Violates Due Process in M.A.K. Investment Group v. City of Glendale

On May 14, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit issued a surprising ruling establishing that a municipality must provide individual notice to property owners whose property is located within an area determined...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

Financing Increased Demand On Pre-Existing Services Constitutes “Additional Services”

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California Court Decision Rules on Mello-Roos Community Facilities Act of 1982 - Community Facilities Districts formed by a landowner vote may be used to finance increased demand on pre-existing services, a California...more

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