Alderman v. Chatham County

JOHNSON, Judge.

Plaintiffs’ complaint alleged that defendant Chatham County and its Board of County Commissioners had acted unlawfully in rezoning Calvin and Mary C. Roberson’s 14.2 acre tract from Residential Agricultural 40-30 (RA 40-30) to Mobile Home District (MH District) for 14 lots and sought the court’s declaratory judgment that defendant commissioners’ 17 March 1986 action in that regard was illegal, invalid, and void, on grounds, inter alia, that the action of the County Commissioners constituted spot zoning and contract zoning.

The trial court’s findings of fact established the…