Real Estate Law News and Insights

According to recent media stories, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced that he is directing his Department of City Planning (DCP) to study expanding regulations prohibiting as-of-right development of hotels throughout the City. If such a proposal were adopted, it would likely be similar to other recent...

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The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) issued its Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) Determination to the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) on Aug. 22, 2019, concluding that the region needs to construct 1,344,740 housing units over the next decade. (SCAG Regional Housing Need Determination, p.1, 2019.) The Determination further...

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Virginia F. Kleist and Daniel Stern owned own lakefront properties within the Chautauqua Shores subdivision. All property owners were subject to covenants and restrictions that were filed in 1962, when the subdivision was developed. The covenants and restrictions give “each and every owner of land in [the subdivision] . ....

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