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Miller Canfield

Michigan Court of Appeals Holds That Development Agreement Obligations are Extinguished in Tax Foreclosure

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The Michigan Court of Appeals recently held that assessments on a property under a development agreement between a city and the property's former owner did not survive a tax foreclosure and therefore were not liens against...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Municipal Development Agreement: Found To Be Illegal Contract Zoning

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In the Matter of Giora Neeman v Town of Warwick, __AD3d__, 2020 NY Slip Op 03112, the Second Department recently declared that a development agreement entered into between the respondent/defendant Black Bear Family...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

Statutory Development Agreements Cannot Be Passed By Initiative - California Appellate Court Gives Cities Less Flexibility

California law does not allow local legislative bodies to pass statutory development agreements by initiative. In Center for Community Action & Environmental Justice v. City of Moreno Valley, decided late last month by a...more

Holland & Knight LLP

New Decisions Offer Important Guidance on California Ballot Box Planning - Rulings Help Reconcile Local Land Use Decisions with...

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• Two recent decisions by California courts offer important judicial guidance on the longstanding issue of reconciling local government land use decisions with the referendum and initiative powers reserved to the people by...more

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Amendments to Library TIF Legislation

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At the end of 2016, a series of bills were enacted into law that allowed library tax increments to be excluded from tax increment capture with respect to a number of authorities. However, the language of the bills was flawed....more

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Update: Michigan Library TIF Legislation

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Earlier this month, a package of bills was signed into law that would phase out the capture of tax increment revenues generated by library millages by downtown development authorities, tax increment finance authorities, local...more

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