North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Dec 19, 2024

VIDEO: Legal concerns arise in evolving world of home rentals

Personal injury attorney Matthew Breen of Lowcountry Law doesn’t see them every day, but he knows that short-term rentals are causing an influx of cases. “You’d be surprised how many […]

Sep 23, 2024

Zoning – Unambiguous Language of Zoning Ordinances – Land Use Buffer

The Court of Appeals majority properly held that the unambiguous language of the relevant zoning ordinances did not require any buffer between these two properties. We affirmed the decision of […]

Aug 12, 2024

Zoning – Sign Ordinance Violation – Free Property Rights

The trial court erred in affirming the Asheville Board of Adjustment’s order dismissing petitioners’ claim, granting the City’s motion for judgment on the pleadings, and denying petitioners’ motions. The City’s […]

Jul 25, 2024

Court OKs referendum on Gullah-Geechee community zoning

SAVANNAH, Ga. — A judge on Tuesday approved a referendum sought by residents of one of the South’s last remaining Gullah-Geechee communities of slave descendants, ordering an Oct. 1 special […]

Jun 24, 2024

Zoning – County and State Zoning Requirements – Zoning Law Amendment – Definition of ‘A Building’ – County Zoning Ordinance

The Building Code Council’s determination that the Chesapeake is “a building” controls. We affirmed. The Chesapeake is a 15,000 square foot vacation home owned by Elizabeth LeTendre and located in […]

May 6, 2024

Bar offers free program on housing law, rights

CHARLOTTE — The Mecklenburg County Bar will bring together local lawyers to offer a virtual Landlord–Tenant and Homeowner Clinic in early June. Attorneys practicing real estate and landlord and tenant […]

Mar 14, 2024

Judge dismisses lawsuit over zoning of Gullah-Geechee land

SAVANNAH, Ga. — A Georgia judge has thrown out a lawsuit accusing local officials of race discrimination when they approved zoning changes to one of the South’s last Gullah-Geechee communities […]

Aug 16, 2023

Zoning – Zones & Uses – Horse Farm & Subdivision – Ambiguity – Text & Table

A table in the respondent-county’s uniform development ordinance (UDO) would require a buffer between a horse farm and a neighboring subdivision. However, the text of the UDO says no buffer […]

Dec 27, 2022

Zoning – Municipal – Real Property – Nonconforming Use – Short-Term Rental – Ambiguous Ordinances

Although the respondent-Town had an enacted ordinance in 1984 to regulate “tourist homes and other temporary residences renting by the day or week” and amended the ordinance in 2000 to […]

Mar 21, 2018

Municipal – Zoning – Civil Practice – Standing – Constitutional

Since plaintiffs lacked standing to protest the defendant-city’s zoning decision under a former law, they also lack standing to seek a declaratory judgment that the city should have made its […]

Feb 7, 2018

Civil Practice – Standing – Zoning – Special Damages – Adjacent Property

Cherry Community Organization v. City of Charlotte (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-023-18, 18 pp.) (Hunter Murphy, J.) (Robert Hunter Jr., concurring in the result only) (Mark Davis, J., concurring in the […]

Jul 11, 2017

Zoning – Court Upholds Zoning Limitation Provision

Quinn v. Board of County Comm’rs for Queen Anne’s County, Md. (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-153-17, 19 pp.) (Wilkinson, J.) No. 16-1890, July 7, 2017; USDC at Baltimore, Md. (Russell, J.) […]