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Small Business Owners Beat Back Local Zoning
Liberty Matters | Feb 2001 | Ralph Nichols -- Almost two centuries ago, the Court of Appeals of New York, the highest appellate court in that state, issued an opinion observing that "no man’s life, liberty or property is safe when the Legislature is in session." Time passes. The more things change, the more they stay the same. But state legi...
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How to Fight Local Zoning
Liberty Matters | Feb 2001 | Fred Kelly Grant -- Throughout the land, property owners are faced with local planning and zoning decisions which endanger private property rights. Often, we focus on the threat of over-regulation, or "taking" by the state or federal government, without properly appreciating the threat posed by local zoning decisio...
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