Lou Ferraro & Hazlet Auto Clean, Inc. v. Zoning Board of Adjustment

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

HANDLER, J.

This case requires the Court to consider the effect of an agreement reached in 1962 between two contiguous municipalities. The agreement, authorized by joint resolutions, permits each municipality to exercise its power of taxation over certain parcels of property that straddle the two municipalities. The agreement also authorizes each municipality to provide municipal services to those properties that it taxes. The issue posed is whether this agreement can be construed as including the power to zone.

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Respondents, Lou Ferraro and Hazlet Auto…