The town board in the Tompkins County town of Dryden, 40 miles southwest of Syracuse, voted unanimously in August 2011 to amend the zoning law to ban gas drilling.

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Menino's critics are right about his initial misuse of zoning law being a violation of the First Amendment, but after backing down on his threats, the mayor maintained he did not welcome Chick-fil-A in Boston.

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Tom West, who represents Norse in the challenge to Dryden's zoning law, said he'll argue that the Frew Run case, which involved a gravel mine, doesn't apply because the state mining law is fundamentally different from the oil and gas statutes.

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The zoning map would not become law until it was published in a government newspaper.

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In 1916, New York City wrote into law the country's first comprehensive Zoning Resolution.

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Goldberg, who is representing Dryden, argues that the state's highest court, the Court of Appeals, ruled in a case known as "Frew Run" that a law regulating the mining industry did not pre-empt local zoning even when that zoning banned the industry from within town borders.

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In Pennsylvania, seven municipalities have filed a lawsuit challenging a 2012 state law that takes away their ability to control gas drilling operations through local zoning.

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