Abstract
This symposium considers the broad topic of urban growth and the control or management of that growth by various techniques of government intervention. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of legal developments in the growth management area. It is not designed to discuss or catalogue each and every case. What it is intended to do, however, is to show that the federal courts have consistently eschewed active intervention in this area when, at the same time, selected state courts have made headlines by intervening agressively in the land use regulation process. State government's authority to regulate comprehensively the use of land is derived from the police power.1 States have the inherent power to legislate to promote the public health, safety, morals, and general welfare.2 In contrast, local governments only possess authority expressly or impliedly
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