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QUESTION: Are the state and county required to comply with a city's planning and zoning ordinances in the use of state and county property located within the jurisdictional boundaries of that city?

SUMMARY: Until judicially determined to the contrary, and in the absence of express legislative immunity from zoning, it should be assumed that one local governmental unit, in the use of its property located within the jurisdictional boundaries of another local governmental unit, is bound by the zoning regulations of the latter; and, upon application for an exception, variance, or zoning change by…