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• The respondents were then asked , "do you think the June 9 decision will cause your council members to be less restrictive in regulating land-use in your city?" In response , 54 percent said "no" , they do not expect their councils to be any less restrictive in the regulation of land uses in the future . There were , however , 35 percent answering in the affirmative , expecting that their elected policy makers would be influenced directly or indirectly by the Supreme Court ' s decision to be less restrictive in the future . The remaining 11 percent had no opinion . A further analysis of the responses shows that a larger proportion of the central city and first ring suburb directors do not expect their councils to be influenced by the supreme court action . A much higher 78 percent of them responded "no" . In contrast , substantially fewer of the directors in the outlying communities (48 percent) responded "no" . A significant 38 percent of them do expect. their councils to weaken land-use regulations as a result of the Court ' s opinion . The remaining 14 percent had no opinion . Next , each of the directors was asked , "Do you think the June 9 land-use decision will cause your city council to amend the • existing land use regulations to make them less.- restrictive?" A significantly high number (85 percent) of the directors felt that their councils would not take a step backward and weaken any of their existing land-use regulations . None of the central city and first ring suburb directors expect such action and only 5 percent of the outlying directors foresee any such action by their councils ; the remaining 14 percent of the outlying directors reported no opinion . The final question asked of each of the forty-six directors was : "Do you think there will be more land-use litigation in your city as a result of this supreme court decision?" A full 70 percent of all directors expect that there will be more litigation as a result of the supreme court decision . The proportion of "yes" and "no" responses was very similar among central area directors and outlying suburban and free standing directors , with only slightly more of the latter expecting more land use litigation in their communities . Of those polled 11 percent had no opinion . Comments from the directors which expect more litigation in their communities indicated that they do not expect the suits to arise out of any existing vulnerabilities of the existing regulations , • but rather from individual land owners who may believe that they may have a remote chance of financial gain by suing the city , and will procede to try it , at least until there is a history of 6