Webb v. Giltner

DONIELSON, Presiding Judge.

Ed and Barbara Kent filed an application with the county zoning commission requesting that their property be rezoned from residential to commercial. The plaintiffs-appellees, 15 in number (objectors), are generally residents living in the area surrounding the approximately 64 acres of real estate owned by the Kents. Although zoned residential, the land has been used for agricultural purposes, has no improvements, and is generally hilly and wooded. It lies adjacent to Highway 34 approximately three miles east of the corporate limits of the city of Ottumwa and…