State Ex Rel. Reich v. City of Beachwood

Rarpinski, Judge.

{¶ 1} Plaintiff-appellant, Molly Reich, appeals from the trial court’s grant of summary judgment to defendant-appellee, the city of Beachwood. Reich filed a complaint for a writ of mandamus and an injunction or, in the alternative, damages against the city for its construction of a fire station on city property that abuts her property in her back yard. Constructing this fire station had required numerous variances from the board of zoning. 1 These variances included reducing the minimum lot size from three acres to 2.04 acres and reducing the distance between the homeowner’s…