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Single-family zoning is a type of planning restriction applied to certain residential zones in the United States and Canada in order to restrict development to only allow single-family detached homes. It disallows townhomes, duplexes, and multifamily housing (apartments) from being built on any plot of land with this zoning designation. [1] [2]
Even though he himself was born a slave, Stanly had used his intelligence and family ties to become a successful entrepreneur, land developer, and plantation owner. In fact, Stanly "became not only the largest slave owner in Craven County, and one of the largest in North Carolina, but he owned more than twice as many slaves as the second ...
The legal system of North Carolina is based on the common law. Like all U.S. states except Louisiana, North Carolina has a reception statute providing for the "reception" of English law. All statutes, regulations, and ordinances are subject to judicial review.
California-based Tri Pointe Homes purchased the land off of Castleberry Road in Apex for a new luxury neighborhood. What to know. $36.4M land deal: Developer buys 100-plus acres in Wake County.
The builder's remedy is a legal mechanism in the United States that can be used in certain states to expedite the construction of low or middle income housing when a municipality fails to comply with laws related to housing development. Typically, where a municipality fails to comply with state laws regarding the development of new housing, the ...
A developer must open part of the shoreline of its planned Lake Norman waterfront community in Mooresville to the public, a government panel ruled this week.. Lake Norman waterfront developments ...
An extension of the homestead principle in law, the Homestead Acts were an expression of the Free Soil policy of Northerners who wanted individual farmers to own and operate their own farms, as opposed to Southern slave owners who wanted to buy up large tracts of land and use slave labor, thereby shutting out free white farmers.
An alternative view of property, favored by legal realists, is that property simply denotes a bundle of rights defined by law and social policy. [1] Which rights are included in the bundle known as property rights, and which bundles are preferred to which others, is simply a matter of policy. [1]