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Construction & Claims: March 2024

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Welcome to Construction & Claims, a periodic digest of the headlines, statutory and regulatory changes and court cases involving construction news, claims, bid protests, contract administration and payment-related disputes....more

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State Seeks to Curb Appeals of Residential Building Permits in San Francisco

The land use entitlement process in California is notoriously complicated, lengthy, and fraught with uncertainty. Less attention is paid to the process of receiving building permits, post-entitlement. Generally, this process...more

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Oyster Bay to provide for administrative adjudication of zoning and other code violations

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Following in the footsteps of the towns of Huntington, Babylon and East Hampton, the Town of Oyster Bay voted on March 7, 2023, to create a Bureau of Administrative Adjudication pursuant to Article 14-BB of the General...more

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Non Reformatio in pejus y procedimientos urbanísticos en Colombia

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La Sección Primera del Consejo de Estado de Colombia, expidió el pasado 14 de julio de 2022 una sentencia, con ponencia del Consejero Hernando Sánchez Sánchez (la Sentencia), por medio de la cual se hacen importantes...more

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Virginia's Fairfax County Set to Update Site-Specific Plan Amendment Process

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All entitlements in Virginia's Fairfax County (Fairfax or the county) are evaluated for their conformance with the county's Comprehensive Plan (Comprehensive Plan). As required by state law, the Comprehensive Plan is a...more

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Massachusetts Municipalities Pursue Building Code Revisions While Awaiting State's Next Steps

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Much of the recent news about climate-influenced building codes has come out of California, where the California Energy Commission announced adoption of revisions to its Building Energy Efficiency Standards, also known as the...more

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New York State Legislature Considering Bill That Would Allow Licensed Architects or Engineers to Issue Building Permits

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Due to delays resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as other factors, many municipalities across Long Island are experiencing significant backlogs of processing building permit applications. ...more

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Modern Convenience Stores Restricted by “Inconvenient” Zoning Rules

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The history of convenience stores in the United States can be traced back to 1927, when an employee of the Southland Ice Company in Dallas, Texas, realized that people needed a place where they could buy basic necessities...more

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LAST CALL: January 24, 2020 is the Deadline to Extend your Building and Development Permits

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In response to Hurricane Dorian, Governor Ron DeSantis has issued Executive Order No. 19-190 (reaffirming and amending Executive Order No. 19-189) declaring a state of emergency for all 67 counties in the state of Florida....more

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Town Takes Trailer: Enforcing Zoning Ordinance against Unresponsive Violators

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In Town of Brookhaven v Golemi, 2019 NY Slip Op 51477(U) [Sup Ct, Suffolk County 2019], the Town of Brookhaven (“Brookhaven”) successfully sought and obtained injunctive relief to remove a structure that violated Brookhaven’s...more

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Village’s Vitiation of Riparian Rights Survives Initial Challenge

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In Akeson v Inc. Vil. of Asharoken, 2019 NY Slip Op 32756(U), Index No. 57/2018 (Sup Ct, Suffolk County 2019), the Supreme Court dismissed a petition challenging the Incorporated Village of Asharoken’s (“Asharoken”) decisions...more

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Municipal Pre-emption Rights under the German Building Code

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What is this all about? Recent speculation on development land and residential area scarcity are no longer solely in the realm of experts. The general public has also been increasingly focused on the application of...more

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Oyster Bay’s Code Provision Linking Building Permits To Qualified Apprenticeship Programs Enjoined

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Several Long Island municipalities have local laws that peg the issuance of certain building permits to a requirement that contractors and subcontractors be participants in a “qualified apprenticeship program” that is...more

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9th Edition Massachusetts State Building Code Approved With Concurrency Period

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The long-awaited 9th Edition of the Massachusetts State Building Code has been approved by the Massachusetts State Board of Building Regulations and Standards and filed with the Secretary of State, to become effective on...more

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The Tiny House Craze: Zoning Laws Could Be a Tiny Impediment

The “tiny house” movement is all the rage right now. The cause of the craze may be many faceted. Whether the popularity and demand is being driven by a shift in peoples’ preference to downsize to a more simplified lifestyle...more

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Texas Supreme Court Affirms Property Owners' Rights Within the Extraterritorial Jurisdiction

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On May 27, 2016, in Town of Lakewood Village v. Bizios, the Texas Supreme Court held that general law municipalities do not have the authority to enforce building codes within their extraterritorial jurisdictions (ETJs). This...more

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