Court Opinion

ID: 9698992
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 20:06:09.878971+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:20:45.296233
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ON REHEARING
MADDOX, Justice.
On application for rehearing, the City of Montgomery asks that we withdraw our original opinion and affirm the judgment 0,f. the trial court. The Alabama League qf -Municipalities and the Central Alabama Regional Planning Commission have also filed briefs as amicus curiae, each contending that our original opinion holding that the City of Montgomery did not have zoning powers beyond its corporate limits is erroneous. We have carefully reviewed our statutes on city and regional planning, and we are still convinced that the City of Montgomery was without legislative authority to enforce its zoning ordinances outside its corporate limits.
'Our city and regional planning statutes follow almost verbatim “A Standard City Planning Enabling Act” published in 1928 by the United States Department of Commerce Advisory Committee on City Planning and Zoning, which was appointed by then Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover.3
The Alabama League of Municipalities candidly admits that the League has been concerned with the interpretation of our statutes on the question of the right of a city to zone extraterritorially and has attempted to secure passage of clarifying legislation by the Alabama Legislature. We take judicial notice of the Alabama House Journal which shows that a bill was introduced at the Regular Session of the Alabama Legislature in 1969 by then Representative Charles Wright (now a Judge on the Court of Civil Appeals) which would have amended Title 37, § 772, to authorize cities to zone within its police jurisdiction. If cities desire to zone outside their city limits it will be necessary to have such authority come from the Legislature.
For further study on the concept of urban development and planning, see Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 20, p. 351; Rathkopf, The Law of Zoning and Planning, Vol. 3, Chapter 71; Yokley, Zoning Law and Practice, Vol. 2, Chapter XI, pp. 1-24.
The application for rehearing is due to be denied.
Opinion extended and rehearing denied.
LIVINGSTON, C. J., and LAWSON, MERRILL and HARWOOD, JJ., concur.

. We have received a copy of the Standard Planning Act from the Library of Congress and have placed it in the Supreme Court Library because' of the comprehensive section by section analysis which is set out in the publication. The analysis made should be of assistance to the bench and bar in determining' the intent of our own Legislature at the time of the passage of our planning statutes.