Keeton v. City of Gatlinburg

OPINION

FRANKS, Judge.

Plaintiffs’ petition to rezone their tract of land lying along Church Street, within the City of Gatlinburg, from R-l, low density residential, to R-2, high density residential, was denied by the city but, in a declaratory action in chancery court, the chancellor entered judgment declaring “the classification by the defendants ... is arbitrary, unreasonable, and without a rational basis and accordingly is ordered reclassified as R-2, high density residential.”

The dispute is before us on appeal by the City of Gatlinburg.

The basis of the court’s ruling appears in its…