Court Opinion

ID: 9763569
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 02:49:46.473969+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:29:46.192491
License: Public Domain

ZAPPALA, Justice,
concurring.
I concur in the result reached by the Majority. I note particularly my agreement with the portion of the Majority Opinion that overrules prior cases standing for the proposition “that the grant of eminent domain powers to a state agency may be taken as an indication of legislative intent that the state agency may override local zoning regulations ...” At 626.
Through the zoning enabling acts, the Legislature has granted municipalities the power to carefully plan and supervise the comprehensive development of their land. Yet this specific grant of power would be highly illusory, and its purpose thwarted, if another public entity were able to override it by implication. I would hold simply that absent a specific legislative grant of authority exempting an agency from local zoning regulations, the local regulations must control.
LARSEN and McDERMOTT, JJ., join in this concurring opinion.