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This summer, we reported on a favorable decision in an administrative proceeding that WSH Members Mitchell J. Burnstein and Susan L. Trevarthen obtained on behalf of the Mayan Beach Club [...]

On October 5, the United States Supreme Court granted a petition for certiorari filed on behalf of the plaintiff in Koontz v. St. Johns Water Management District. Oral arguments will be scheduled [...]

This summer, WSH reported on a favorable decision in an administrative proceeding that WSH Members Mitchell J. Burnstein and Susan L. Trevarthen obtained on behalf of the Mayan Beach Club [...]

On January 15, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Koontz v. St. Johns Water Management District. The Court granted certiorari to the appellant last October. The case involves Cory Koontz, [...]

On August 1, Yankeetown asked a Leon County circuit court judge to declare HB 7207 unconstitutional. The lawsuit was filed against the Department of Community Affairs, DCA Secretary Billy Buzzett [...]

My personal “top ten” list of things that have NOT changed in local government comprehensive planning with the enactment of the 2011 Community Planning Act: 1)  Local governments still must [...]

The Act removes the state mandate for local governments to enforce transportation concurrency, the regulatory requirement that roadway and other transportation facilities be in place concurrent [...]

As in the film “Groundhog Day,” local governments woke up at the end of the 2011 Legislative Session to find that yet another set of permit extensions were provided directly by the state, [...]

The Act limits the scope of the state land planning agency’s (now the Department of Community Affairs (DCA) but, as of October, to become the Department of Economic Opportunity) ability to object [...]

For the first time since the enactment of the Harris Act in 1995, the Act can apply to temporary impacts to the development of property. See Section 70.001, Florida Statutes, known as the Bert J. [...]