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The Place Of The Planning Commission And The Board Of Zoning Appeals In Community Life, E. C. Yokley

Vanderbilt Law Review

Progressive and fortunate is the city or town served by a planning commission whose membership is comprised of upstanding and public spirited citizens of known integrity, who give freely of their time and talents in such activity. When the same city or town can point with pride to a board of zoning appeals possessing the same high qualities of dedicated public service, it is doubly blessed.

The members of such commissions and boards become the city's most effective police officers when they properly perform their duties. This is literally true, because they derive all of their authority from such part …

The Validity Of Extraterritorial Municipal Zoning, Otis J. Bouwsma

Vanderbilt Law Review

A body of law does not suddenly spring up. A period of development is required during which there is a gradual evolution of a comprehensive and coherent body of law. So, the law of zoning did not go immediately from the one extreme of completely unregulated city development to the other extreme of closely restricted city planning and zoning. Throughout the years tremendous changes in living conditions were taking place; sign board regulation was developing; and cities were prohibiting noxious uses of property for the benefit of the whole community. These things paved the way for the holding in Village …