image credit: Amy Fast-food coffee shops may look virtually the same from town to town, but as a recent Appeals Court decision reminds planners and local land use boards, what a town’s zoning by-law says—and local officials’ reasonable interpretations of that by-law—can dictate how they are characterized… READ MORE
Late last week, the Supreme Court decided an important case in regulatory takings law, Murr v. Wisconsin. Murr sets out a new test for defining the private property at issue in regulatory takings cases. Regulatory takings and the denominator problem. A regulatory taking may occur when the government regulates… READ MORE