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Constitutional Law - United States; Equal Protection; Land Use Planning; Licenses, Certificates, and Permits

JC-0142

Texas Attorney General Opinion

Building permits, capping number of residential but not number of nonresidential a home-rule municipality issues in a specified time period probably does not, as a matter of law, violate|Taking, growth-management plan of home-rule municipality that caps number of residential building permits issued in a specified period of time may constitute compensable|Growth-management plan that caps number of residential building permits issued in specified time period, home-rule municipality general may adopt|Building permits, home-rule municipality generally may limit number of residential permits issued in specified time period

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