State Ex Rel. Miller v. Cain

Appellant owns an improved lot, 50' by 100', at the southwest corner of Broadway and Roanoke streets in the city of Seattle. In 1923, at the time of the adoption of the zoning ordinance in that city, there was a gasoline service station on the lot, a wooden structure fifteen feet square with an attached canopy, also fifteen feet square, which covered two gasoline pumps. When the boundaries of the various use districts were established, appellant’s lot was within a first residence district, and the gasoline service station became a permitted nonconforming building and use under the terms of…