Holland v. City of Alabaster

RUSSELL, Judge.

In September 1987 Sherman Holland and the Meadowlark South Company (Meadowlark) filed suit seeking to enjoin the City of Alabaster (City), Mayor Roger N. Wheeler, the Alabaster City Council (Council), and acting Council members from enforcing a comprehensive zoning ordinance, which Holland and Meadowlark alleged was improperly enacted in 1986. Contending that the City failed to provide the statutorily required notice of a public hearing before adoption of the ordinance, Holland and Meadowlark also requested a judicial declaration that the ordinance was void.

Following…