National Boulevard Bank v. Village of Schaumburg

Plaintiff Eugene Matanky is the beneficial owner of property held in trust by plaintiff National Boulevard Bank of Chicago. Plaintiffs instituted this declaratory judgment action subsequent to a denial by defendant, the village of Schaumburg, of Matanky’s request to rezone the subject property. The circuit court ruled that plaintiffs had overcome the presumption of validity of the village’s zoning ordinance as applied to the subject property, and the court also found that plaintiffs’ proposed use, a combination of multifamily and single-family uses, was reasonable. The appellate court…