Goyonaga v. Board of Zoning Appeals

OPINION BY Justice LAWRENCE L. KOONTZ, JR.

This appeal arises from a petition for certiorari filed in the appropriate circuit court challenging a stop work order issued by a zoning administrator and upheld on appeal to the local board of zoning appeals. The stop work order was issued to prohibit renovations of a residential structure that qualified as a pre-existing nonconforming use under *155 the applicable zoning ordinance. The circuit court found no error in the decision of the board of zoning appeals, and also denied a request for a declaratory judgment that the property owners had acquired a…