Abstract
This Article will examine the effect of municipal home rule on the doctrines that have developed to resolve one particular type of intergovernmental conflict-the attempt of a municipality to enforce its land use and construction standards and restrictions on facilities within its boundaries operated or regulated by other governmental units. First, we shall present models of the types of conflicts that have reached the courts. Second, we shall review existing case law to show that most courts have been guided in their decisions by a conceptualization of municipal governments as protectors of private, parochial interests-a conceptualization that is markedly at odds with modern home rule policies. Finally, we shall argue that home rule municipalities are in a unique position to resolve the competing public interests at stake in these conflicts and that their efforts to do so should be recognized and encouraged by the courts.
Keywords
Government immunity and liability, Municipal corporations, Zoning
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