BOARD OF SUP'RS, ETC. v. Fralin & Waldron, Inc.

In this land use dispute, a landowner’s optionee has successfully attacked in the trial court a local governing body’s decision to approve piecemeal downzoning of undeveloped property. The main issue on appeal is whether the governing body adduced sufficient evidence in the court below to make questions of mistake or change of circumstances fairly debatable. Incidental to the main issue is whether the optionee had standing to sue.

The subject property is a nearly triangular 16.64-acre parcel of land situated on the east side of Woodman Road in northern Henrico County. A flood plain, at places…