Brown v. Dougherty County

Smith, Justice.

In this zoning dispute, Brown appeals from the Dougherty County Board of Commissioners’ denial of his request to rezone a tract of land located in southern Dougherty County. The superior court affirmed the denial of Brown’s rezoning request. We reverse.

The subject land consists of approximately ninety rural acres located at the southeast corner of Lonesome Road and Vanderbilt Drive. To the east and south of the tract is farmland. To the west and north are single-family residences. At present ten acres of Brown’s tract is zoned R-1B (single-family residential); the remainder is…