BIG BOX MUST COMPLY WITH HISTORIC OVERLAY IN ABINGDON The latest vested rights decision in the Commonwealth has been passed down from Judge C. Randall Lowe of the Twenty-eighth Judicial Circuit, sitting in the Washington County Circuit Court.   The case is Commonwealth-Abingdon Partners, L.P. v. Town of Abingdon, Case No. CL08-47.  You can read the [...]

One thing that we have all seen as local government lawyers is the ability of a large (and sometimes even a small) group of vocal citizens to alter the results of a vote on a rezoning or other local ordinance. To me, this involvement is healthy. Citizen involvement is a hallmark of local government, the [...]