Harrison v. Mayor of Batesville

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

LAMAR, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. In this certiorari case, we consider whether the Mayor and the Batesville Board of Aldermen (collectively the “Board”) erred in granting a variance to allow mining in an area zoned single-family residential and community business. The Mississippi Court of Appeals found that it had and reversed and rendered. However, its opinion provided little discussion of the applicable zoning ordinance governing variances. That ordinance allows the Board to grant a variance due to “practical difficulties or unnecessary hardships.” While the Batesville…