Negin v. Board of Building & Zoning Appeals of the City of Mentor

This case originated as an appeal from an administrative decision brought pursuant to R. C. Chapter 2506. The question presented by such an appeal challenging the constitutionality of a zoning ordinance as applied is “whether the ordinance, in proscribing a landowner’s proposed use of his land, has any reasonable relationship to the legitimate exercise of the police power by the municipality.” Mobil Oil Corp. v. Rocky River (1974), 38 Ohio St. 2d 23.

It is virtually axiomatic that the enactment of zoning laws by a municipality is an exercise of the police power to provide for the public…