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Under the standard, ordinances are presumed to be unconstitutional. [17] The second landmark decision by the Supreme Court was Reed v. Town of Gilbert. In Reed, the Court reviewed the constitutionality of a sign ordinance in Gilbert, Arizona, which regulated the manner signs could be displayed in public areas. The ordinance banned the display ...
Towns with at least 10,000 residents were required to allow the development of duplexes in single-family zones, while cities with over 25,000 residents and a few smaller places in the Portland metropolitan area also had to permit triplexes, fourplexes, and "cottage clusters" (several small homes around a common yard) in addition to duplexes on ...
A public comment hearing to discuss the proposed ordinance will be held at 5:30 p.m. on ... Jul. 28—A draft of a proposed revision of the county's zoning ordinances has been completed. The new ...
An authority can be organized by any county, city, town, borough, township, or school district of the Commonwealth, acting singly or jointly with another municipality. An authority is established by ordinance by one or more municipalities. The governing bodies of the parent local unit or units appoint the members of the authority's board.
Jul. 28—A draft of a proposed revision of the county's zoning ordinances has been completed. The new drafts have been distributed to members of the Mainland and Islands planning commissions and ...
Town of Gilbert, 707 F.3d 1057 (9th Cir. 2013) Holding; A municipal ordinance that placed stricter limitations on the size and placement of religious signs than other types of signs was an unconstitutional content-based restriction on free speech. Court membership; Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy
A New Hampshire town's new ordinance that was pitched as “a path forward” for public artwork hasn't resolved a bakery owner's First Amendment dispute over a large pastry painting, and his ...
Some towns require a referendum for items such as annual budgets and changes to the town's ordinances. For those items, the town meeting votes to whether or not to send the issue to a referendum, which is held at a later date pursuant to the schedule laid out in that town's ordinances.