Hazen v. Hawley

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, filed June 17, 1935, ordering the appellants, as the Zoning Commission of the District of Columbia, to vacate the zoning of property of the appellee as “B Restricted”, which forbids the erection of an apartment house, and to re-zone the property “to Area ‘B’ or Area ‘C’, and so as to permit the erection thereon of an apartment house.”

The appellee’s property, Lot 830 in Square 2205 in the District of Columbia, is located at the northeast corner of Calvert Street and Woodley Place. It…