Garrison v. City of North Little Rock

Tom Glaze, Justice.

The appellants are North Little Rock property owners whose lots back up to and adjoin the northern boundary of a commercial development, Lakewood Village Subdivision. A platted forty-foot buffer zone divided the commercial property and the residential lots. Apparently the commercial development owner applied to the North Little Rock Planning Commission for a waiver of the buffer zone, and the request was granted.1 Immediately afterwards, the developer removed the trees and other greenery from the buffer zone, and built a retaining wall in place of the greenery.

Appellants…