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		<title>Board of Adjustment Subpoenas – What are They and How do They Work??</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Terrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[            American counties and towns are peppered with an unusual governmental creature called the “Board of Adjustment.”  BOA functions may vary state to state, but they are the focal point for some of the most far-reaching land use decisions made by local governments.              In North Carolina, Boards of Adjustment can issue subpoenas much the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nclegallandscapes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9296072&amp;post=514&amp;subd=nclegallandscapes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Sound of Chirping Birds</title>
		<link>http://nclegallandscapes.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/the-sound-of-chirping-birds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Terrell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[             On a few occasions I’ve used this blog to comment on the economy that undergirds land development and growth.  Two years ago, I woke up on New Year’s Day and, reflecting on the economic carnage we all had witnessed during 2009, wrote a post that captured what it felt like to have been in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nclegallandscapes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9296072&amp;post=509&amp;subd=nclegallandscapes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Impact Fees (APFOs) – So, Is that Your Final Answer?</title>
		<link>http://nclegallandscapes.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/impact-fees-apfos-so-is-that-your-final-answer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Terrell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Case Law Updates]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nclegallandscapes.wordpress.com/?p=499</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[            Apparently we have to wait a bit longer for a final answer to the state’s million dollar question: can schools be funded by assessing developers an “impact fee.”?  The latest non-answer was recently published in the N.C. Supreme Court’s non-decision in the Cary-originated Amward Homes case.              I’ve covered this issue in numerous previous [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nclegallandscapes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9296072&amp;post=499&amp;subd=nclegallandscapes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moving to the Nuisance . . . and then Complaining</title>
		<link>http://nclegallandscapes.wordpress.com/2011/12/04/moving-to-the-nuisance-and-then-complaining/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 23:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Terrell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmental General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land Use Battles]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nclegallandscapes.wordpress.com/?p=494</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[             If your knowledge of land use theory comes from a textbook you might think zoning is about the right and logical use of land.  But if your knowledge comes from life in the zoning battle trenches where bullets fly fast and shrapnel wounds are common, you know that zoning decisions often have more to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nclegallandscapes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9296072&amp;post=494&amp;subd=nclegallandscapes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zoning Appeals and Statutes of Limitation</title>
		<link>http://nclegallandscapes.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/zoning-appeals-and-statutes-of-limitation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Terrell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nclegallandscapes.wordpress.com/?p=491</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[             If you’ve ever wondered what frightens lawyers and keeps them up at night I can describe it in three words: statutes of limitations.              A “statute of limitation” is a fancy way of describing a deadline to file a lawsuit.  That’s all it is.  The problems with these deadlines are that 1) they sometimes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nclegallandscapes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9296072&amp;post=491&amp;subd=nclegallandscapes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Regulating Billboards at the Tipping Point</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Terrell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorials]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nclegallandscapes.wordpress.com/?p=484</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[            As a general proposition, I support billboards.  As a general proposition.  Billboards help ME when I need to find an interstate exit with my favorite fast food and a bathroom.  Billboards help me find hotels when traveling long distances. Yes, sometimes the blue signs with 6 different hotel or restaurant logos work just fine, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nclegallandscapes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9296072&amp;post=484&amp;subd=nclegallandscapes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It’s Hard to Shoe a Running Horse</title>
		<link>http://nclegallandscapes.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/it%e2%80%99s-hard-to-shoe-a-running-horse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Terrell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Boards of Adjustment]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nclegallandscapes.wordpress.com/?p=480</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[        “It’s hard to shoe a running horse.”  That’s not my quote.  It was a comment from the bench by Judge Abraham Penn Jones responding to the Town of Hillsborough’s attempt to bypass a direct court order to issue a conditional use permit in Schaefer v. Town of Hillsborough.              Hillsborough, however, sore from losing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nclegallandscapes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9296072&amp;post=480&amp;subd=nclegallandscapes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Board of Adjustment 33 Hour Marathon</title>
		<link>http://nclegallandscapes.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/board-of-adjustment-33-hour-marathon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Terrell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Conditional/Special Use Permits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land Use Battles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solid Waste/Landfills]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[             After six nights and 33 hours of testimony and deliberation, the Harnett County Board of Adjustment reached a decision this week regarding a Conditional Use Permit for a regional landfill.  It was a marathon.  I know, because I was there.              Was it a record?  I don’t know.  My previous marathon was a 5 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nclegallandscapes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9296072&amp;post=474&amp;subd=nclegallandscapes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wind Turbines, Nimbyism, Fish and Chips</title>
		<link>http://nclegallandscapes.wordpress.com/2011/08/27/wind-turbines-nimbyism-fish-and-chips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Terrell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmental General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land Use Battles]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nclegallandscapes.wordpress.com/?p=470</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[             I love it when I’m right.  I admit that I don’t bat 1.000, but good hits are nice.  In today’s NY Times Roger Cohen (Britain Goes Nimby) writes that 82% of Brits favor wind power, yet in every community in England where turbines are proposed the citizens have fought them with the proverbial teeth [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nclegallandscapes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9296072&amp;post=470&amp;subd=nclegallandscapes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Billboards, Vested Rights and Screwy Ordinance Interpretations</title>
		<link>http://nclegallandscapes.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/billboards-vested-rights-and-screwy-ordinance-interpretations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Terrell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Boards of Adjustment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[             The N.C. Supreme Court recently decided a land use case (not a common occurrence) with facts that are, actually, fun to describe.  Let’s review the facts and the holding, and stay tuned for some color(ful) commentary from Morris Communications d/b/a Fairway Outdoor Advertising v. City of Bessemer City Board of Adjustment.  The Facts              [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nclegallandscapes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9296072&amp;post=460&amp;subd=nclegallandscapes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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