Chrischilles v. Arnolds Park Zoning Board of Adjustment

NEUMAN, Judge.

This consolidated action for certiorari and injunction stems from a dispute between lakefront neighbors over storm shutters installed in the screened-in porch of a summer home. The question common to both actions is whether the shutter installation violated a zoning variance granted fifteen months earlier when the porch was built. Without answering that question, the district court retroactively annulled the variance. The court of appeals reversed the district court on jurisdictional grounds. On further review we now vacate the court of appeals decision, reverse the district…