Winchester v. W a Foote Memorial Hospital

Plaintiffs appeal as of right from a November 19, 1985, order of the Jackson Circuit Court, upholding a May 10, 1985, decision of the City of Jackson Planning Commission in which defendant W. A. Foote Memorial Hospital was granted a conditional use permit for the construction and operation of a helicopter landing pad on hospital property. The trial judge set forth the rationale for his decision in an opinion dated November 1, 1985.

The hospital requested the permit to enable it to construct a helipad to facilitate the transportation to other hospitals of patients in need of quick, specialized…