BD. OF ZONING ADJUSTMENT, ETC. v. Warren

We granted certiorari to review the action of the Court of Civil Appeals in affirming a judgment of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Bessemer Division, which denied what the court had treated as a use variance request by Alabama Power Company to expand an electrical substation in Hueytown.

The facts are fully set out in the opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals, but we restate a few of the pertinent facts here. Alabama Power Company had owned and operated the electrical substation on the subject property since 1948, in an area of Hueytown zoned R-2. The city Zoning ordinance permitted a…