Northern Trust Co. v. County of Lake

This case is a zoning dispute in which defendant, Lake County, denied plaintiffs a conditional use permit to construct a wastewater treatment facility (the facility) as part of a proposed 144-unit town-home development (the development) on plaintiffs’ vacant 40-acre parcel (the property) in unincorporated Lake County. The property was held in trust, and plaintiff Tim Towne owns a 100% beneficial interest in the trust. Lake County successfully moved to dismiss plaintiffs’ second-amended eight-count complaint, and plaintiffs appeal. On appeal, plaintiffs argue only that counts I, I\( and V…