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Metropolitanization And Land-Use Parochialism--Toward A Judicial Attitude, Michael H. Feiler
Metropolitanization And Land-Use Parochialism--Toward A Judicial Attitude, Michael H. Feiler
Michigan Law Review
The purpose of this Article is to explore those situations in which courts have given meaning to the Euclid caveat in operation, and, from those instances, to attempt to evolve a judicial approach to the problems posed by the conflict between purely local interests on the one hand and more comprehensive regional interests on the other. Four basic premises are herein indulged: (1) that strictly local zoning is unsatisfactory; (2) that new and innovative legislation will not be readily forthcoming; (3) that the burden of mediating these conflict situations will continue to fall upon the judiciary; and (4) that present …
Zoning Restrictions Applied To Mobile Homes, Byron D. Van Iden
Zoning Restrictions Applied To Mobile Homes, Byron D. Van Iden
Cleveland State Law Review
It is the thesis of this paper that a municipality may not prevent expansion of an existing mobile home park (in the absence of a clear showing that to do so is necessary to promote the public health, safety, or welfare) by excluding mobile home parks from the zoning resolution, and through statutory limitations on the expansion of nonconforming uses. After examining treatment by the courts of regulating and excluding mobile home parks, several possible approaches will be shown for the mobile home park developer to use in overcoming these zoning restrictions.