Sherwood Land Co. v. Municipal Planning Commission of City of Charleston

This ease is before us on appeal by the Sherwood Land Company, a West Virginia corporation, from a final order entered May 4, 1990, in the Circuit Court of Kanawha County, which affirmed the actions of the Charleston Municipal Planning Commission (MPC) in withdrawing its approval of the preliminary plat submitted for an addition to the Sherwood Forest Subdivision. The circuit court found that the MPC’s decision to reconsider its approval was both procedurally and substantively correct and that the MPC had not acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner in withdrawing the approval. Sherwood…