Board of Supervisors v. Booher

This is an appeal from a decree authorizing a businessman to operate an automobile graveyard in a district where such a business is not one of the uses permitted by the zoning ordinance. The decree was entered on the zoning authority’s petition for injunction to enforce the ordinance, the landowner’s answer and answers to interrogatories, certain exhibits filed with the pleadings, and argument of counsel. No testimony was adduced, and we review the facts as disclosed by the documents of record.

The Board of Supervisors of Washington County (the Board) enacted the County’s zoning ordinance in…