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Covel v. Town of Vienna
No. 091343Supreme Court of Virginia
091343 Covel v. Town of Vienna 06/10/2010 The judgment is affirmed in three consolidated circuit court actions involving challenges to a local historic preservation ordinance and decisions made by the locality…
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091343 Covel v. Town of Vienna 06/10/2010 The judgment is affirmed in three consolidated circuit court actions involving challeng…
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091343 Covel v. Town of Vienna 06/10/2010 The judgment is affirmed in three consolidated circuit court actions involving challenges to a local historic preservation ordinance and decisions made by the locality thereunder. No evidence in the record rebuts the presumption of validity of the locality's decision denying a certificate of appropriateness to build a fence and denying permission to remove various parcels from the historic district. Code § 15.2-1427(C), reenacted in 2000, bars all non-constitutional challenges to the adoption of ordinances existing at that time, such as the ordinance involved in these cases. The ordinance provisions at issue here are sufficiently precise and definit…
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091343 Covel v. Town of Vienna 06/10/2010 The judgment is affirmed in three consolidated circuit court actions involving challenges to a local historic preservation ordinance and decisions made by the locality thereunder. No evidence in the record rebuts the presumption of validity of the locality's decision denying a certificate of appropriateness to build a fence and denying permission to remove various parcels from the historic district. Code § 15.2-1427(C), reenacted in 2000, bars all non-constitutional challenges to the adoption of ordinances existing at that time, such as the ordinance involved in these cases. The ordinance provisions at issue here are sufficiently precise and definit…
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