Koplos v. City of Rockford

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Winnebago County entered in a proceeding for declaratory judgment against defendant, City of Rockford, to declare a zoning ordinance unconstitutional and void as applied to plaintiffs’ property and to compel the defendant to permit plaintiffs to erect multi-family apartments on the property. The decree of the Circuit Court declared the ordinance, which permits only single family dwellings, unconstitutional and void and permitted plaintiffs to erect and construct two twenty-unit condominium apartment buildings four stories in height on…