Rodine v. Zoning Board of Adjustment

SACKETT, Judge.

We are asked to address the issue of whether ex parte communications to members of defendant-appellee the Zoning Board of Adjustment of Polk County, Iowa, were so unfair an order should be entered annulling the action of the board. Before doing so we must determine whether the board’s action is sufficient to raise a question of sufficient public import so the issue should be addressed even though the underlying controversy is now moot.

General Growth Properties sought from defendant board a variance and a special use permit to construct a private sewage treatment plant just…