Doty v. City of Rockford

I must respectfully dissent. Plaintiffs sought multiple-family residential zoning with a special use permit for an office building which was denied by the city of Rockford. In this action plaintiffs sought a declaratory judgment; the trial judge declared that the single-family zoning classification was unreasonable as applied to plaintiffs’ property and his order provided that plaintiffs would be allowed to use their premises for “a single-story office building” consistent with the site plan that had been submitted at trial. The standard to be applied by this court on appeal has been recently…