In North Carolina, laws have been abolished that would allow localities to object to factory farms in their backyard.
Current federal and state rules allow localities to let welfare recipients satisfy work requirements by counting class time, work-study jobs and internships.
His plan would save motorists about $300 million a year, and it would also allow localities to repeal their portion of the tax.
The other deals with the use of a formula favored by the governor that would essentially allow localities to decide how much affordable housing would be built.
They are working on a mechanism - a so-called clean energy bank - that will allow localities to pool their money and create larger, more economically efficient projects that could attract greater private investment.
Municipal land use laws, now tilted toward developers, would be rewritten to allow localities to spurn new malls and housing, impose fees to offset the extra costs of new housing and allow one-year moratoriums on building -- all of which requires action by the state legislature.
Another case argued before the court in November focuses on a new approach to the "fair share" calculation favored by the governor and wealthy towns that would essentially allow localities to decide for themselves how much affordable housing would be built.
Senator Danielle Conrad, a Democrat who is one of Ms. Fischer's regular rivals in the statehouse, criticized her for opposing bipartisan bills like one that would allow localities to change their sales tax rates and one to provide prenatal care for all women, including illegal immigrants.
These include, for instance, a proposal that would allow localities to opt out of the civil-service system altogether, giving them more control over hiring and firing local officials, and another that would limit the cash payouts that retiring workers can take for their unused sick days.
He also claimed that Northam wanted to take down the state's Confederate monuments, despite Northam's assurances that he would allow localities to decide.
