Rosenberg v. Village of Whitefish Bay

1. The case is controlled by the Building Height Cases, 181 Wis. 519, 195 N. W. 544. Ordinance 219, like the statute considered in the Building Height Cases, looks to the future and is not retroactive in effect. It contains the identical language of the statute considered in those cases, that is that “no building shall be erected,” etc. The ordinance expressly provides that any building on premises devoted to a nonconforming use at the time the ordinance *217is passed may be continued in such use after the passage of the ordinance. Like the statute considered in the Building Height Cases, “it is…