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March 10, 2013 1 Volume 7 Issue 5 Zoning Bulletin <br />introduced legislation that would bar nursing home facilities from housing <br />state prison inmates and mental patients without prior local approval. In the <br />meantime, the Town of Rocky Hill is seeking a temporary restraining order <br />to prevent state prison inmates and mental patients from being moved into <br />a private nursing home in the town. Reportedly, since 2011, Governor Mal - <br />loy's administration has been "looking for a way to move very sick and <br />terminally ill patients out of its facilities and into private nursing homes to <br />reduce long - terra care costs." <br />Source: The Hartford Courant; http: / /articles.courant.com <br />FLORIDA <br />The Florida League of Cities, an organization of more than 400 cities, is <br />lobbying for state legislation that would define transition homes (i.e., homes <br />for recovering addicts), require them to be licensed, more than 1,000 feet <br />apart, and registered with local governments. <br />Source: TCPalm; www.tcpalm.com <br />NEW YORK <br />New York City's Board of Standards and Appeals recently ruled that the <br />Metropolitan Transportation Authority ( "MTA ") must comply with local <br />zoning regulations and take down signs on its property that run afoul of <br />city rules. The MTA had argued that as a state agency it was exempt from <br />local zoning laws that ban billboards within 900 feet of arterial highways. <br />Source: Crain's New York; www.crainsnewvork.com <br />NEVADA <br />The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled as unconstitutional state legisla- <br />tion that prohibited Clark County from changing zoning laws to allow for <br />more development on property adjacent to conservation areas. The court <br />ruled that the law violated a provision of the Nevada Constitution that <br />prohibits the Legislature from passing local laws that regulate county <br />business. <br />Source: Las Vegas Review- Journal; www.lvrj.com <br />NEW HAMPSHIRE <br />State Representative Katherine Rogers introduced legislation that <br />"would give local planning and zoning boards the power to approve or veto <br />building projects by the state and local governments." Representatives <br />from four state agencies —the Department of Resources and Economic <br />Development, the Department of Administrative Services, the Community <br />College System of New Hampshire, and the Fish and Game Department — <br />reportedly have opposed the legislation, saying that requiring projects to go <br />through local review and obtain local approval would cause delays and cost <br />overruns. <br />Source: Concord Monitor; www.concordmonitor.com <br />12 © 2013 Thomson Reuters <br />