Northern Kentucky Area Planning Commission v. Cloyd

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that an entity serves a “local interest” where its actions primarily benefit that locality’s businesses and residents
• explaining that programs that predominantly benefit local property owners, business owners, and residents are “quintessentially” local concerns
• distinguishing between “the work of a state” and the work of a city
• “[A]rea planning commissions protect certain interests of the state, but also govern the development of local communities”
• “To a substantial degree, land use planning is quintessentially the type of local concern that simply is not common to all citizens of the state.”
• “This is important because even cities have immunity in performing legislative or quasi-legislative functions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).