Local Land Use Control Highlighted 2025 Legislative Fights

Local land use control highlighted 2025 legislative fights

Why Should Delaware Care? For generations, land use has been controlled by counties and municipalities, whose elected officials determine what and where new developments can be built. This year, however, the state legislature exercised its Constitutional authority to override that precedent, and force local governments to enact policies they don’t support. Toward the end of this year’s legislative session, tensions flared between state lawmakers…

Stearns County to review land use permitting process

ST. CLOUD — Stearns County commissioners will review and consider changing county ordinances for agriculture-related business and the conditional and interim land use permitting process in a work session following their regular Tuesday, July 8, meeting. Tensions over the permitting process have been simmering at the county level for months. In February, the commissioners approved a permit allowing a St. Joseph flower farm to build an event space…