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DC Preservation League v. Mayor’s Agent for Historic Preservation

Posted 2021
Author
Robert H. Levin
About This Legal Opinion

Most of this opinion addresses the Historic Preservation Act but the analysis of the clause that expressly allows broad flexibility room for termination or amendment by the landowner is not a robust restriction capable of enforcement by a land trust or preservation trust.

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