Zoning in W.Va.

The state Supreme Court has ordered the Jefferson County Planning Commission to reverse the denial of a permit to "developers of a controversial 152-home community in part of the Shepherdstown Battlefield area," The Journal of Martinsburg reports.

(The article explains that while some consider the battle "a significant factor in Gen. Robert E. Lee’s decision to retreat farther into the Shenandoah Valley" in 1862, but that the developers argued that it "occurred about one mile away from the proposed project site" and that "the battlefield area has never been listed on the National Register of Historic Places or the state’s historic register.")