Smeltzer v. Messer’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. ““While it may be said that any municipality has an interest in its approaches, we can find nothing in the statutes which grants the power to control the use of such outlying territory unless it may reasonably be contem- ' plated that such territory will eventually become a part of the city. The future expansion of' its1 territorial limits is a basic consideration the legislature apparently had in mind when enacting the planning and zoning statutes. Since appellees’ land cannot be absorbed under annexation proceedings by the City of Erlanger, its use is not so reasonably related to the city’s development as to fall within the purposes shown by the statutes.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. American Sign Corporation v. Fowler