Tag: Maine Land Use Law

David Goldman chalked up another appellate win in Zappia v. Town of Old Orchard Beach.  The Law Court’s decision in Zappia promises to significantly shape the way in which local municipal land use officials are required to interpret zoning ordinances that restrict the way in which property owners make use of their own private property This...

Norman, Hanson & DeTroy is pleased to announce that Langdon Thaxter has joined the firm as an associate attorney in our Commercial Group. Langdon is a Maine native who grew up in Portland. He attended Bard College in New York State, where he majored in philosophy with a focus on the philosophy of language. After...

The Law Court upended practitioners’ expectations regarding how local municipal land use officials are expected to act in the face of a property rights dispute between neighbors in its decision in Tomasino v. Town of Casco that a recent Maine Bar Journal article referred to as “arguably the most significant land use decision of 2020.”...