Gibson v. Village of Wilmette

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE ROMITI

delivered the opinion of the court:

A recently passed village of Wilmette ordinance prohibits the separation of ownership of legally separate but adjoining lots of record where the individual lot would be less than the minimum permissible area or frontage size. The issue in this case is whether that ordinance is valid as applied to property purchased before the passage of the ordinance where the lots as separated would be the same size as all of the surrounding lots and there was no showing that anyone would be damaged by the fact that the lot upon which plaintiffs…