Gorieb v. Fox

For the declared purpose of establishing building lines and regulating and restricting the construction and location of buildings, and for other purposes, an ordinance of Roanoke, Virginia, divides the city into “ business ” and “residential” districts. Another ordinance, as amended July 11,1924, creates a set-back or building line, with relation to the street, to which all buildings subsequently erected must conform. The line must be at least as far from the street ad that occupied by sixty per cent, of the existing houses in the block, the word “ block ” being de fined to mean only that…