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15836
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An area of city planning receiving is the use of zoning as an alternative to control the proliferation of the adult entertainment business. The author looks at Fayetteville, North Carolina as a case study for adult entertainment zoning.
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Carolina Planning (NoCar HT 393 N8 C29x), Vol. 7 Issue 1, Spring 1981, p33-41, f
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There exists a legal controversy when preexisting structures that do not comply with newly adopted regulations are allowed to remain in place for a set period.
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Popular Government (NoCar JK 4101 P6), Vol. 57 Issue 2, Fall 1991, p20-29, il
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27904
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The issues surrounding the re-zoning of a development in the Lake Falls watershed is explored. Ten reasons why the zoning is bad for the Raleigh area, the local water supply, the environment, and private citizens are stated. The main reason the zoning is drawing the anger from many is due to the pollution future developments may cause and the opening for shopping centers to be built in the watershed area under the new regulations. Wake County’s Board of Commissioners were the group who approved the rezoning.
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Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 27 Issue 14, April 2010, p9 Periodical Website
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29063
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Where and when food trucks can park is determined by city and county governments in North Carolina, creating a system of differing ordinances and confusing logistics for customers. The various ordinances require food trucks to park at certain locations, distances, and times.
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17955
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A decision of major importance to fast-growing North Carolina cities was handed down by the North Carolina Supreme Court, when it upheld Raleigh's extra-territorial zoning ordinance, which allows cities to extend their ordinances to population growth on their fringes. This decision holds that cities may also validly exclude trailer camps from residence districts in their zoning ordinances.
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Popular Government (NoCar JK 4101 P6), Vol. 24 Issue 6, Mar 1958, p6-8
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17992
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Understanding legal precedents for historic preservation, specifically highlighting the differences between zoning and easements, is addressed by the author. Zoning refers to government regulation of private property as these affect public health and welfare. Easement recalls older property laws concerning ownership and rights inherent in owning property. For the purpose of historic preservation balance must be determined between the public and private realm of historic properties and how a combination of zoning and easements presents the most beneficial approach to such matters.
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Popular Government (NoCar JK 4101 P6), Vol. 34 Issue 4, Dec 1967, p16-22, il
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28718
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The North Carolina Supreme Court made two important zoning decisions in Chrismon v. Guilford County and Hall v. City of Durham. The case rulings now allow special use district zoning techniques, and extensively clarified the spot zoning and contract zoning doctrines.
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Local Government Law Bulletin (NoCar KFN 7830 A15 L6), Vol. Issue 34, Nov 1988, p1-7, f
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1170
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Local governments deal with two types of zoning decisions when considering rezoning: legislative zoning decisions, which affect the entire community by setting general policies applicable through the ordinance; and quasi-judicial decisions, which apply established ordinance policies to individual situations.
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Popular Government (NoCar JK 4101 P6), Vol. 58 Issue 4, Spring 1993, p26-35, por, f
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17537
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Zoning ordinances were enacted by the 1923 General Assembly and were upheld by both the National and State Supreme Courts in the 1930s. North Carolina Supreme Court judges were divided over a ruling concerning fences. The case discussed in this article is: In the case of In re Appeal of Dr. Parker.
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Popular Government (NoCar JK 4101 P6), Vol. 5 Issue 7, July 1938, p1, 24, por
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