Time has a way of flushing out the good, bad and ugly aspects of historical decisions. Tom Thomson and Andy Peterson offered one account of NH’s 50 years of current use (“New Hampshire’s current use ...

Two recent land-use cases before the County Commission illustrate how even modest requests can run headlong into neighborhood opposition and bureaucratic hurdles — and how applicants often don't know ...

Solar panels and wind turbines at an energy center in Washington state. When Chad Raines took over his family’s Texas cotton farm in 2008, he thought the going would be easy. That’s because their ...

MARTIN COUNTY — The controversial rural-lifestyle land use, which was passed here in September but held up by a challenge at the state level, will move forward after state officials ruled Tuesday that ...

When developers went to build on an 80-acre tract of rural land near the Bend Municipal Airport, developers had to blast the land with dynamite to break through the lava rock in order to lay down ...

CHESAPEAKE — City Council is poised to consider a resolution that would close a land use development loophole in an effort to preserve more of its rural, agricultural land. Over the past few months, ...

Orange County commissioners will take on the rural boundary discussion Tuesday that a citizens’ panel studied for nearly a year with advocates hopeful the elected board will put the hotly contested ...

CHESAPEAKE — Concerned by the growth of subdivisions in rural parts of the city with limited infrastructure, Chesapeake leaders have taken a series of actions to close a “loophole” that for decades ...