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The Selling Out Of Mount Laurel: Regional Contribution Agreements In New Jersey's Fair Housing Act, Rachel Fox
The Selling Out Of Mount Laurel: Regional Contribution Agreements In New Jersey's Fair Housing Act, Rachel Fox
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This Article outlines the origins of exclusionary zoning, the doctrine announced in Southern Burlington County NAACP v. Township of Mount Laurel and the emergence of Regional Contribution Agreements (RCAs) under New Jersey's Fair Housing Act. The author argues that, as implemented, RCAs thwart the Mount Laurel doctrine's explicit goal of revitalizing urban areas and its implicit goal of racial integration of suburban municipalities. The article concludes that, because the RCAs thwart some of the basic goals of the Mount Laurel doctrine, the New Jersey Fair Housing Act can no longer be described as a codification of that doctrine and substantial …
Challenging Exclusionary Zoning: Contrasting Recent Federal And State Court Approaches, James C. Quinn
Challenging Exclusionary Zoning: Contrasting Recent Federal And State Court Approaches, James C. Quinn
Fordham Urban Law Journal
The zoning power, though based on the police power of the states, has traditionally been granted to local communities through various state enabling statutes. These enabling statutes permit local enactment of zoning ordinances only to the extent that they bear a substantial relation to the "health, safety, morals, or general welfare" of the community. With the migration of middle-class city dwellers to thc suburbs after World War II, zoning has become more than a means of maintaining the proper mix of land-use patterns in a community. Rather, in fear of overly rapid development and irreversible alteration of their community character, …