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· 11/8/1999

Apt Pittsburgh Limited Partnership v. Penn Township Butler County Of Pennsylvania

Citations

  • 196 F.3d 469
  • 18 Communications Reg. (P&F) 1069
  • 1999 U.S. App. LEXIS 29314

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding that the plaintiff’s claim of a de facto exclusionary ordinance failed because there was no evidence the land could not be used for other purposes
  • reasoning that questions of effective prohibition and federal preemption are legal issues, not subject to deferential judicial review
  • explaining that “to succeed in its exclusionary zoning claim ... [the Plaintiff] had to prove that no other telecommunications provider, including itself, could build a functional tower ... ”
  • noting that the TCA “places several substantive and procedural limits upon [local zoning] authority when it is exercised in relation to personal wireless service facilities”
  • explaining that “to succeed in its exclusionary zoning claim ... [the Plaintiff] had to prove that no other telecommunications provider, including itself, could build a functional tower ... ”
  • explaining that “to succeed in its exclusionary zoning claim . . . [the Plaintiff] had to prove that no other telecommunications provider, including itself, could build a functional tower . . .”

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