Murray City passed a transit development ordinance in 2005 that allows narrower streets, encourages trees and pocket parks, and is designed to produce a new district that is not too densely built, but also won't look or feel anything like a typical single-use suburban subdivision.
About 70 percent of the hamlet's land is protected from development; zoning ordinances make it difficult to change land use or increase density; and the commercial fishing industry, while threatened, is still active, local officials said.
They say it has been disregarded in the development of zoning ordinances by too many municipalities and in decisions on spending by state agencies.
Concerned that the Virginia base is hemmed in by development and that ordinances limit how low the fighters can fly during training, the panel adopted a provision calling on the Defense Department to consider moving to Jacksonville if the Virginia Beach problems were not corrected by next March.
And in what some locals hope will be a welcome alternative to dense condominium projects, architect Barbara Bestor said she expects to break ground on Blackbirds, an 18-home small-lot ordinance development within the next month.
Although the ordinances limit development, they neither prevent the best use of appellants' land, see United States v. Causby, 328 U.S. 256, 262, and n. 7, 66 S.Ct.
(c) Although the ordinances limit development, they neither prevent the best use of appellants' land nor extinguish a fundamental attribute of ownership.
Rutherford campaigned on a platform of improved roads, resource development, simplification of territorial ordinances, and in what would become a theme of his political career increased educational funding.
Among the efforts in community development: The city approved ordinances to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries; approved a customer service plan for the Community Development Department; and approved an ordinance clarifying major remodel definitions.
Stilson Hill Road, one of 24 roads in New Milford noted by the town's Scenic Road Ordinance, is undergoing residential development despite the protection the ordinance was supposed to give.
