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 regulate rentals for “less than 28 consecutive days,” the Town ...

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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 zoning decision in conformity with the former law rather than ...

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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 result only without separate opinion) Appealed from Mecklenburg County Superior ...

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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.) 4th Cir. Holding: A district court did not err in ...

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Thompson v. Town of White Lake (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-076-17, 15 pp.) (Lucy Inman, J.) Appealed from Bladen County Superior Court (James Gregory Bell, J.) N.C. App. Holding: The respondent-town’s zoning inspector gave three reasons for the town’s intended revocation ...

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Thompson v. Town of White Lake (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-076-17, 15 pp.) (Lucy Inman, J.) Appealed from Bladen County Superior Court (James Gregory Bell, J.) N.C. App. Holding: The respondent-town’s zoning inspector gave three reasons for the town’s intended revocation ...

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Brookline Residential, LLC v. City of Charlotte (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-019-17, 18 pp.) (Mark Davis, J.) Appealed from Mecklenburg County Superior Court (Hugh Lewis, J.) N.C. App. Holding: A developer obtained a bond to guarantee construction of the roads in ...

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Pittsboro Matters, Inc. v. Town of Pittsboro (Lawyers Weekly No. 012-018-17, 27 pp.) (Wendy Enochs, J.) Appealed from Chatham County Superior Court (Paul Ridgeway, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: The defendant-town could adopt its small-area-plan review and approval process without ...

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Campbell v. City of Statesville (Lawyers Weekly No. 012-193-16, 14 pp.) (Ann Marie Calabria, J.) Appealed from Iredell County Superior Court (Mark Klass, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Statesville City Council member Michael Schlesinger lived half a mile from a ...

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Pittsboro Matters, Inc. v. Town of Pittsboro (Lawyers Weekly No. 012-151-16, 14 pp.) (Wanda Bryant, J.) Appealed from Chatham County Superior Court (Paul Ridgeway, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Plaintiffs did not violate N.C. R. Civ. P. 11 when they ...

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