Campbell v. Board of Adjustment, South Plainfield

This is a zoning case in which the prosecutor was denied a certificate of occupancy to carry on a gasoline and service station in South Plainfield. A zoning ordinance was adopted in March, 1932, and the prosecutor’s property was placed in a residential zone. At that time he was conducting the gas station and roadstand in a frame building erected in 1931, and was given a non-conforming certificate. This use he continued until November. In May, 1933, the premises were leased to another who carried on the same business until October, 1933, when the prosecutor resumed the business for a month.…