T-Mobile Central, LLC v. Unified Government Wyandotte County Ks

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “aesthetics can be a valid ground for local zoning decisions”
• to satisfy substantial evidence review under the TCA, “the fact-finder must adequately explain its reasons for rejecting or discrediting competent evidence”
• “In order [to] be supported by substantial evidence, the proffered reasons must comport with the objective criteria in existence .... Governing bodies cannot simply arbitrarily invent new criteria in order to reject an application.”
• “[T]he substantial evidence inquiry does not require incorporation of the federal standards imposed by the TCA, but instead requires a determination whether the zoning decision at issue is supported by substantial evidence in the context of applicable state and local law. ”
• “Judicial review under [§ 332] is quite narrow.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).