North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Where the charter of the Greenville Utilities Commission empowers GUC to charge for contemporaneous use of its water and sewer systems, the charter does not contemplate charges for future services. Therefore, the charter did not authorize GUC to charge the ...

Where petitioner PHG presented competent, material, and substantial evidence that its proposed hotel satisfied the relevant conditional use permit standards set out in the respondent-city’s unified development ordinance, and where the record contains no competent, material, and substantial evidence tending ...

Because Moore County was already enforcing a zoning ordinance, subdivision regulations and the State Building Code in the area to which the Town of Pinebluff sought to extend its extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ), Pinebluff needed Moore County’s agreement or approval to ...

Both sides present reasonable interpretations of the defendant-city’s charter—in which the General Assembly gave the city’s Board of Light and Water Commissioners authority to levy prospective fees for water and sewer service—and session laws extinguishing the board and transferring its ...

Where (1) the respondent-town granted a conditional use permit to petitioner-developer Jubilee Carolina, LLC, to develop a Harris Teeter grocery store, which included connectivity with a neighboring shopping center and (2) the shopping center was then sold to respondent-developer Carolina ...

In order to bring suit through outside counsel, the plaintiff-city’s ordinances required that the city council adopt a resolution. Without this required vote, the council lacked the authority to commence legal proceedings against the defendant Nances. We affirm the trial ...

Before his election to the board of county commissioners, Commissioner Permenter vocally opposed the solar farm proposed by petitioners. Once Permenter was elected, when this matter came before the board, he presented biased, one-sided and incomplete evidence opposing petitioners’ application ...

 Where a county planning department official makes an interlocutory determination, and where an applicant relies on that determination to its detriment, the determination must be appealed by the county to its board of adjustment within 30 days; otherwise, the official’s ...

Although some of the issues set out in plaintiff’s complaint arose prior to the defendant-town’s adoption of its 2015 minimum housing ordinance, the 2015 ordinance replaced a 1995 minimum housing ordinance. Plaintiff failed to exhaust his administrative remedies with respect ...

Where the petitioner-developer’s expert in real estate appraisal certified, “The reported analyses, opinions, and conclusions were developed, and this report has been prepared, in conformity with the requirements of the Code of Professional Ethics & Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice ...