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Re:San Francisco Is Requiring Solar Panels on All New Buildings by eldavido on Friday April 22, 2016 @01:06PM (#11550655)
Local government doesn't give a damn; they're perfectly content to refuse permit issuance if you don't comply with their regulations.

In theory you're correct, but, courts aren't known for their speed.

EDIT: IANAL but I think the issue here is more complex, because the regulations don't "conflict", they create a situation where a bad outcome occurs only because both of them are in place.

Does anyone know if there are other "emergent phenomenon" effects in law and how they're handled?

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Re:San Francisco Is Requiring Solar Panels on All New Buildings by Guvante on Friday April 22, 2016 @02:48PM (#11551602)
The rules don't even conflict that way, there are legitimate ways to satisfy both requirements. All of them just have side effects that aren't desirable.

Thus there is no way to challenge the lower law as superseding as it doesn't technically. It instead supersedes most reasonable designs.

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