Ilasi v. City of Long Beach

We hold that it was error for the courts below summarily to have declared unconstitutional an amendment to the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Long Beach which, while leaving undisturbed a general restriction to single-family use, expressly permitted continuation of prior existing two-family uses. We conclude that this case should have proceeded to trial.

Because of the summary disposition at Supreme Court, the record before us is very meager. It appears, however, that an imprecisely described area in the east end of the City of Long Beach had been zoned for many years for single-family…