Village Builders, Inc. v. Town Plan & Zoning Commission

On September 13, 1954, the plaintiff was the owner of a fifty-acre tract of land in the Unionville section of the town of Farmington. The tract was located in an R 20 zone, in which the minimum lot requirements were approximately one-half an acre. Following a public hearing on that date, the defendant commission placed all but twelve acres of this property in an R 40 zone requiring approximately one-acre lots. On appeal to the Court of Common Pleas, the action of the commission was reversed. From that judgment the commission has appealed.

The reasons given by the commission for upgrading the…