People ex rel. Builders Supply & Lumber Co. v. Village of Maywood

PRESIDING JUSTICE McCORMICK

delivered the opinion of the court.

This appeal is taken from a declaratory judgment entered in the trial court finding that the plaintiff, as the owner of certain property in a “B” two-family district under the zoning ordinance of Maywood, Illinois, had a right to erect a single-family dwelling residence thereon with a three-foot side yard on each side of the residence in spite of the fact that the section of the ordinance dealing with two-family districts provides that the side yard be not less than five feet.

The plaintiff, after the building commissioner of the…