Ahearn v. Town of Wheatland

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• holding that “the general grant of power to municipalities to adopt zoning laws in the interest of public welfare does not permit the local governing 22 bodies to override the state law and the policies supporting it”
• because ordinance did not conflict with statute and no other state statute addressed the issue, the town council was required to comply with the ordinance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).