Keiger v. Winston-Salem Board of Adjustment

SHARP, Justice.

The trial judge concluded that a rezoning ordinance, instigated after petitioners’ application for a permit to construct a mobile home park on their 14.5-acre site, could have no effect whatever upon their right to the permit. Therefore, he did not adjudicate the validity or invalidity of the ordinance purporting to change the classification of petitioners’ property.

It is the rule in this State that the issuance of a building permit, to which the permittee is entitled under the existing ordinance, creates no vested right to build contrary to the provisions of a subsequently…