Rinker v. City of Fairfax

In this land use controversy involving conditional zoning, we decide whether the trial court correctly sustained a local governing body’s demurrer and properly ruled that a landowner had failed to exhaust administrative remedies before mounting a judicial attack on the validity of zoning legislation.

Appellants Jack E. Rinker and David E. Feldman, trustees, and Judicial Drive Associates, a general partnership (collectively, the landowner), filed a bill of complaint for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief against appellees City of Fairfax, its Council, and its zoning administrator…