Vanderbilt Law Review Volume 8 Issue 4 Issue 4 - A Symposium on Local Government Law--Foreword--Local Government Article 7 in the Larger Scheme of Things 6-1955 The Validity of Extraterritorial Municipal Zoning Otis J. Bouwsma Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vlr Part of the Land Use Law Commons, and the State and Local Government Law Commons Recommended Citation Otis J. Bouwsma, The Validity of Extraterritorial Municipal Zoning, 8 Vanderbilt Law Review 806 (1955) Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vlr/vol8/iss4/7 This Symposium is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarship@Vanderbilt Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Vanderbilt Law Review by an authorized editor of Scholarship@Vanderbilt Law. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. THE VALIDITY OF EXTRATERRITORIAL MUNICIPAL ZONING OTIS J. BOUWSMA* INTRODUCTION Advances in the fields of transportation and communication have made necessary a vast amount of law which was foreign to the statute books of a century ago. So, also, in the field of local government, changes in conditions have required alterations in, and additions to, the old law of municipal corporations. Comprehensive municipal zoning, as it exists today, is such an addition to our laws. The subject of zoning is not new, but it was not until 1926 that it became a fixed and important part of our laws. In that year the United States Supreme Court, in the leading case of Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Company' upheld the validity of comprehensive municipal zoning.