City of Monett, Barry County v. Buchanan

BARRETT, Commissioner.

Started by the City of Monett as a suit to enjoin landowners, William and Mary Buchanan, from completing construction of a business building on six lots in a resi-dentially zoned district, the cause has come to involve, as to this specific property, the validity, both as to enactment and enforcement, of the city’s comprehensive zoning ordinance. The ordinance, finally adopted on August 8, 1961, placed the appellant-owners’ six lots in District A a single-family residence zone. When the ordinance was adopted, however, there was then on the lots a partially constructed…